Motion generation for groups of robots: A centralized, geometric approach

ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2002

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 1307-1315

  Belta, Calin ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC APPROACHES; MOTION GENERATION; RELATIVE POSITIONS; RIGID FORMATIONS; SMOOTH TRAJECTORIES;

ROBOTS; TRAJECTORIES;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; ROBOTS;

EID: 0036974761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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