"Little helper" - An autonomous industrial mobile manipulator concept

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hvilshøj, Mads ^a   Bøgh, Simon ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autonomous industrial mobile manipulation (AIMM); Flexible automation; Industrial robotics

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MANIPULATORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE MANIPULATOR; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE SHELVES; COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES; FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS; MOBILE MANIPULATION;

INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS;

EID: 79958742236     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/10579     Document Type: Article

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