Remote navigation of a mobile robot in an RFID-augmented environment

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-136

  Luimula, Mika ^a   Sääskilahti, Kirsti ^b   Partala, Timo ^c   Pieskä, Sakari ^a   Alaspää, Juha ^a  

^a CENTRIA Research and Development   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human factors; Identification; Mobile robots; Multisensor systems; Remote control; RFID; Robot sensing systems; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTED ENVIRONMENTS; CAMERA VIEW; EFFICIENT CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL VISUALIZATION; FLOORPLANS; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEMS; REMOTE NAVIGATION; REMOTE ROBOT; RFID TECHNOLOGY; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEM; ROBOT SYSTEM; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; STEERING MOTION; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

CAMERAS; FLOORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; REMOTE CONTROL; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 77952674257     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-009-0238-3     Document Type: Article

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