The autonomous city explorer: Towards natural human-robot interaction in urban environments

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-140

  Bauer, Andrea ^a   Klasing, Klaas ^a   Lidoris, Georgios ^a   Mühlbauer, Quirin ^a   Rohrmüller, Florian ^a   Sosnowski, Stefan ^a   Xu, Tingting ^a   Kühnlenz, Kolja ^a   Wollherr, Dirk ^a   Buss, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous outdoor navigation; Field robotics; Human robot interaction; Knowledge representation; Social robotics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD ROBOTICS; OUTDOOR NAVIGATION; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TOPOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 76249119425     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-009-0011-9     Document Type: Article

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