Deployment of a service robot to help older people

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5990-5995

  Jayawardena, C ^a   Kuo, I H ^b   Unger, U ^b   Igic, A ^b   Wong, R ^b   Watson, C I ^b   Stafford, R Q ^b   Broadbent, E ^b   Tiwari, P ^b   Warren, J ^b   Sohn, J ^b   MacDonald, B A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT LIVING; KEY OBJECTIVE; MOBILE SERVICE ROBOTS; OLDER PEOPLE; SERVICE APPLICATIONS; SERVICE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651491207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5649910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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