Decentralized kinematic control of payload transport by a system of mobile manipulators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2462-2467

  Tang, Chin Pei ^a   Bhatt, Rajankumar ^a   Krovi, Venkat ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized Control; Mobile Manipulator; Nonholonomic Constraints; Twist Analysis

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING;

KINEMATIC CONTROL; MOBILE MANIPULATORS; NONHOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; PAYLOAD TRANSPORT; TWIST ANALYSIS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 3042574044     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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