SyRoTek-Distance teaching of mobile robotics

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-23

  Kulich, Miroslav ^a   Chudoba, Jan ^a   Kosnar, Karel ^a   Krajnik, Tomáš ^a   Faigl, Jan ^a   Preucil, Libor ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Educational technology; mobile robots; robot programming; telerobotics; user interfaces

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; BUENOS AIRES; CONTROL ENGINEERING; E-LEARNING PLATFORMS; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE ROBOTIC; PRAGUE , CZECH REPUBLIC; REAL TIME; REMOTE ACCESS; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES; TELE-ROBOTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; E-LEARNING; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; USER INTERFACES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84873406105     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2012.2224867     Document Type: Article

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