Decentralized control of cooperating mobile manipulators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue , 1998, Pages 2916-2921

  Sugar, Thomas ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; REAL TIME CONTROL; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STIFFNESS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE PLATFORMS; CARTESIAN STIFFNESS; CO-ORDINATED CONTROL; DESIGN AND CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL TESTBED; MANIPULATOR ARMS; MOBILE MANIPULATOR; SENSORY INFORMATION;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MANIPULATORS;

COOPERATING MOBILE MANIPULATORS; REAL TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031633582     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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