Design and development of two generations of semi-autonomous social telepresence robots

IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tsui, Katherine M ^a   Norton, Adam ^a   Brooks, Daniel J ^a   McCann, Eric ^a   Medvedev, Mikhail S ^a   Yanco, Holly A ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED NAVIGATIONS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; OVERALL DESIGN; RESEARCH FOCUS; TELEOPERATED; TELEPRESENCE ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84883366009     PISSN: 23250526     EISSN: 23250534     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TePRA.2013.6556360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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