Towards a personal robotics development platform: Rationale and design of an intrinsically safe personal robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2165-2170

  Wyrobek, Keenan A ^b   Berger, Eric H ^c   Van Der Loos, H F Machiel ^a,d   Salisbury, J Kenneth ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SAFETY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PERSONAL ROBOTICS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MACHINE DESIGN;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 51649120431     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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