Transport of an object by six pre-attached robots interacting via physical links

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1317-1323

  Groß, Roderich ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RELIABILITY THEORY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL LINKS; ROBOT INTERACTION; ROUGH TERRAIN CONDITIONS;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33845641381     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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