Cooperative transportation by two four-legged robots with implicit communication

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-19

  Aiyama, Y ^a   Hara, M ^a   Yabuki, T ^b   Ota, J ^a   Arai, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SENSORS; STATE ESTIMATION;

COOPERATIVE TRANSPORTATION; FOUR-LEGGED ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033355729     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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