Distributed computing in robotics and automation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 409-420

  Brugali, Davide ^a   Fayad, Mohamed E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Frameworks; Objected oriented technology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; END EFFECTORS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; INTERNET; MANIPULATORS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

DEXTEROUS MANIPULATORS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0036703509     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.802937     Document Type: Article

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