Co-operative robot teams in a hospital environment

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, ICIS 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 843-847

  Thiel, Simon ^a   Häbe, Dagmar ^a   Block, Micha ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co operative robots; Hospital robots; IWARD; Modular robots; Robot; Service robotic

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE ROBOTS; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; IWARD; POWER STATE; REAL-TIME TASKS; ROBOT SERVICE; ROBOT TEAMS; SERVICE ROBOTS; TASK DISTRIBUTION;

HOSPITALS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SCHEDULING;

INTELLIGENT COMPUTING;

EID: 77949604316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICICISYS.2009.5358271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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