A framework for coordinating multiple robots in cooperative manipulation tasks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4571, Issue , 2001, Pages 120-127

  Chaimowicz, Luiz ^a,b   Kumar, Vijay ^b   Campos, Mario ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative Robotics; Distributed Control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0035766576     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444152     Document Type: Article

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