Lifelong robot-assisted mobility: Models, tools, and challenges

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2009, Issue 12725, 2009, Pages

  Demiris, Yiannis ^a   Carlson, Tom ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive shared control; Assistive robotics; Intention prediction; Lifelong user models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MODELS; ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; SHARED CONTROL; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; USER MODELS; USERS WITH DISABILITIES; YOUNG CHILDREN;

EDUCATION; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70449652426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2009.0037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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