Cooperative motion control and sensing architecture in compliant framed modular mobile robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1095-1101

  Zhu, Xiaorui ^a,b   Kim, Youngshik ^a   Merrell, Roy ^a,c   Minor, Mark A ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative systems; Distributed control; Motion control; Robot sensing systems; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; KINEMATICS; MOTION CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

COMPLIANT FRAMED WHEELED MODULAR MOBILE ROBOT (CFMMR); COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34047254377     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.903815     Document Type: Article

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