Solving function distribution and behavior design problem for cooperative object handling by multiple mobile robots

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 537-549

  Wang, ZhiDong ^a   Nakano, Eiji ^a   Takahashi, Takayuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior design; Cooperative object handling; Distributed robots control; Function allocation; Multirobot system

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FINITE AUTOMATA; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTS CONTROL; FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION; MULTIROBOT SYSTEM; PATH TRACKING TASK;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0041479896     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.817396     Document Type: Article

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