Modular Robot System Architecture

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1054-1059

  Bi, Z M ^a   Zhang, W J ^a   Lang, Sherman Y T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MACHINING; MOTION CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SPEED CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

MODULAR STRUCTURES; REAL-TIME CONTROL; ROBOT ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEM ADAPTABILITY; DESIGN SYNTHESIS; HARDWARE-ORIENTED DIMENSION; JOINT MODULES; ROBOT SYSTEMS;

MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

EID: 2342443216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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