Optimal configuration selection for a cooperating system of mobile manipulators

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 1299-1306

  Abou Samah, Michel ^a   Krovi, Venkat ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration optimization; Isotropic manipulability; Mobile manipulators

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE MANIPULATOR; CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION; DIFFERENTIALLY DRIVEN WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT; MANIPULABILITY; MOBILE BASIS; MOBILE MANIPULATOR; MOBILE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM; MULTI DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; NON HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINT; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PASSIVE JOINTS; RELATIVE POSITIONING; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; WHEELED MOBILE MANIPULATOR; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM;

DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0036974797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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