A voice-commandable robotic forklift working alongside humans in minimally-prepared outdoor environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 526-533

  Teller, Seth ^a   Walter, Matthew R ^a   Antone, Matthew ^c   Correa, Andrew ^a   Davis, Randall ^a   Fletcher, Luke ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^b   Glass, Jim ^a   How, Jonathan P ^b   Huang, Albert S ^a   Jeon, Jeong Hwan ^b   Karaman, Sertac ^b   Luders, Brandon ^b   Roy, Nicholas ^a   Sainath, Tara ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PROXIMITY; FORKLIFT OPERATORS; HUMAN SUPERVISORS; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; LOCAL SENSING; MOBILE AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; MOVING VEHICLES; MULTI-MODAL; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PEN-BASED; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; REAL-WORLD; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SEMI-STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS; STORAGE FACILITIES;

MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; ROBOTICS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77955779523     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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