Motion planning of multiple mobile robots for cooperative manipulation and transportation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-237

  Yamashita, Atsushi ^a   Arai, Tamio ^b   Ota, Jun ^b   Asama, Hajime ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative manipulation; Cooperative transportation; Motion planning; Multiple mobile robots

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HEURISTIC METHODS; MANIPULATORS; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL;

COOPERATIVE MANIPULATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037387782     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.809592     Document Type: Article

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