Kinect-based system for automated control of terrestrial insect biobots

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1470-1473

  Whitmire, Eric ^a   Latif, Tahmid ^a   Bozkurt, Alper ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CONTROL; CENTIMETER-SCALE; HUMAN OPERATOR; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LINE FOLLOWING; MICROCONTROLLER-BASED; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

AUTOMATION; CONTROL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; COCKROACH; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; ROBOTICS; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; COCKROACHES; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RADIO WAVES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84886452305     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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