Switching between collaboration levels in a human-robot target recognition system

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 955-967

  Tkach, Itshak ^a   Bechar, Avital ^b   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collaboration levels; dynamic switching; human robot interaction; target recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; CLOSED LOOP CONTROLLERS; COLLABORATION LEVELS; DYNAMIC SWITCHING; HUMAN OPERATOR; HUMAN-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PARAMETER VALUES; REAL-TIME ADAPTATION; REAL-TIME DYNAMICS; TARGET RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SWITCHING;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 80054802092     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2119480     Document Type: Article

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