Capturing a convex object with three discs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2242-2247

  Erickson, Jeff ^a   Thite, Shripad ^a   Rothganger, Fred ^a   Ponce, Jean ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GRIPPERS; POLYNOMIALS;

DISC SHAPED ROBOT; STATIONARY ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344445427     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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