A new sensory system for modeling and tracking humans within industrial work cells

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1227-1236

  Najmaei, Nima ^a,b   Kermani, Mehrdad R ^a   Al Lawati, Mohammed A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics CSTAR   (Canada)

^c PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

Floor mat; human detection and tracking; obstacle modeling; self organizing feature maps; sensory system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; EXISTING SYSTEMS; HUMAN DETECTION AND TRACKING; HUMAN MODEL; HUMAN MOTIONS; HUMAN ORIENTATION; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MULTISENSORY SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE MODELING; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; SELF-ORGANIZING FEATURE MAPS; SENSORY SYSTEM; WORK CELL;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FIRMWARE; FLOORS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79952629225     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2083350     Document Type: Article

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