Transfer control of a large object by a group of mobile robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 271-280

  Ota, Jun ^a   Arai, Tamio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS;

VIRTUAL IMPEDANCE MODEL;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032596011     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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