Cooperative Navigation for Mixed Human-Robot Teams Using Haptic Feedback

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 462-473

  Scheggi, Stefano ^a   Aggravi, Marco ^a   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; formation control; haptic feedback; human body tracking; human robot interaction; human robot team; psychophysics

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; NAVIGATION; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

COOPERATIVE NAVIGATIONS; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC OBSTACLES; VIBRATIONAL SIGNALS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84991035773     PISSN: 21682291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2016.2608936     Document Type: Article

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