Sharing a Vision: Systems and Algorithms for Collaboratively-Teleoperated Robotic Cameras

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 51, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Song, Dezhen ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80051530249     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88065-3     Document Type: Article

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