EL-E: An assistive mobile manipulator that autonomously fetches objects from flat surfaces

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-64

  Jain, Advait ^a   Kemp, Charles C ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive robotics; Mobile manipulation

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; FLAT SURFACES; LASER POINTER; LOW-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION; MOBILE MANIPULATION; MOBILE MANIPULATOR;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; TELEPHONE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 73549106331     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-009-9148-5     Document Type: Article

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