Control a rigid caging formation for cooperative object transportation by multiple mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1580-1585

  Wang, ZhiDong ^a   Hirata, Yasuhisa ^a   Kosuge, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FORCE CONTROL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; POSITION CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CAGING; MANIPULATION; NON HOLONOMIC VEHICLES; THRESHOLD DISTANCE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042668787     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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