Distributed manipulation of flat objects with two airflow sinks

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1189-1201

  Moon, Hyungpil ^a   Luntz, Jonathan ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Airflow fields; Distributed manipulation; Sensorless sequential manipulation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOBILE ROBOTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AIRFLOW FIELDS; DISTRIBUTED MANIPULATION; MANIPULATION ALGORITHMS; SENSORLESS SEQUENTIAL MANIPULATION;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33845539681     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.882921     Document Type: Article

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