Screw-theoretic analysis framework for cooperative payload transport by mobile manipulator collectives

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-178

  Tang, Chin Pei ^a   Bhatt, Rajankumar M ^a   Abou Samah, Michel ^b,c   Krovi, Venkat ^a  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MSC SOFTWARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative robotic system; In parallel system; Mobile manipulator; Nonholonomic constraints; Screw theory

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONSTRAINED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; COOPERATIVE ROBOTIC SYSTEM; IN-PARALLEL SYSTEM; MOBILE MANIPULATOR; NONHOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; SCREW THEORY; SYSTEM MODEL; SYSTEM-LEVEL PERFORMANCE;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33645805470     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2006.871092     Document Type: Article

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