On relating the disconnectedness of a contact formation to the geometric properties of its constituent objects

Proceedings-IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 2284-2289

  Johnston, David ^a   Xiao, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT FORMATION; DISJOINT REGIONS; LIMITING CHANNEL ELEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GEOMETRY; THEOREM PROVING; TOPOLOGY;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0033689406     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2000.846367     Document Type: Article

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