Dwarf intelligence - A large object carried by seven dwarves

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 149-155

  Arai, Tamio ^a   Ota, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Intelligence; Motion planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

COOPERATION; DWARF INTELLIGENCE; GRASPING; GROUP INTELLIGENCE; VIRTUAL IMPEDANCE METHOD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0030196183     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8890(96)88519-8     Document Type: Article

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