Performance analysis of a human-Robot collaborative target recognition system

Robotica

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 813-826

  Oren, Y ^a   Bechar, A ^b   Edan, Y ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Human robot collaboration; Objective function; Operational cost; Operational level; Performance analysis; Target recognition

Indexed keywords

HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATIONAL COSTS; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; TARGET RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864653218     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574711001020     Document Type: Article

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