DustCart, an autonomous robot for door-to-door garbage collection: From DustBot project to the experimentation in the small town of Peccioli

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 655-660

  Ferri, Gabriele ^a   Manzi, Alessandro ^a   Salvini, Pericle ^a   Mazzolai, Barbara ^b   Laschi, Cecilia ^a   Dario, Paolo ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; GARBAGE BAGS; GARBAGE COLLECTION; HUMAN USERS; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; OPTICAL BEACON; POSITION ERRORS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SMALL TOWNS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC OBSTACLES; TUSCANY; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN SITE; WIRELESS CONNECTION;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFUSE COLLECTION; ROBOTICS; URBAN GROWTH;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84871674579     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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