Joint location and configuration of mobile service robots for hospitals

4th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 615-620

  Baalbaki, Hassan ^a   Lamiri, Mehdi ^a   Xie, Xiaolan ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; HOSPITALS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

COLUMN GENERATION APPROACHES; FEASIBLE SOLUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; LOWER BOUNDS; MOBILE SERVICE ROBOTS; PAPER ADDRESSES; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 54949131802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2008.4626452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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