RoboFlow: A flow-based visual programming language for mobile manipulation tasks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages 5537-5544

  Alexandrova, Sonya ^a   Tatlock, Zachary ^a   Cakmak, Maya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VISUAL LANGUAGES; VISUALIZATION;

CONTEXT OF USE; ERROR HANDLING; FLOW BASED; HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAMMING; HUMAN ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE MANIPULATION; MOBILE MANIPULATOR; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84938263369     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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