Model-based development of virtual laboratories for robotics over the internet

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 623-634

  Von Borstel, Fernando D ^a   Gordillo, José Luis ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Discrete event systems (DESs); Event based telerobotics; Object oriented languages; Petri nets; Unified Modeling Language (UML); Virtual laboratory (VL)

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; EVENT-BASED; OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES; TELE-ROBOTICS; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; GRAPH THEORY; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTERNET; LABORATORIES; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PETRI NETS; QUERY LANGUAGES; ROBOTICS; TEACHING;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 77951207129     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2036930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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