Service robots for hospitals: A case study of transportation tasks in a hospital

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 289-294

  Özkil, Ali Gürcan ^a   Fan, Zhun ^a   Dwids, Steen ^a   Aanaæs, Henrik ^a   Kristensen, Jens Klástrup ^b   Christensen, Kim Hardam ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b FORCE TECHNOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AGV; Hospital logistics; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

AGV; AUTOMATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL LOGISTICS; MOBILE SERVICE ROBOTS; SERVICE ROBOTS;

AUTOMATION; HOSPITALS; LOGISTICS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 70450194085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAL.2009.5262912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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