A rapidly deployable manipulator system

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-304

  Paredis, Christiaan J J ^a   Brown, H Benjamin ^a   Khosla, Pradeep K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based genetic algorithm; Composable design system; Modular robotics; Software assembly

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL; DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MANIPULATORS;

SOTFWARE ASSEMBLY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0031222482     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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