Manipulability-based configuration evaluation of cooperative payload transport by mobile robot collectives

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2004, Pages 1273-1282

  Tang, Chin Pei ^a   Krovi, Venkat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative robot collectives; Manipulability based performance measures; Mobile manipulator agents; Nonholonomic holonomic constraints; Varied joint actuation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; PERFORMANCE;

HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MOBILE BASES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 13944269895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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