Multirobot-based nanoassembly planning with automated path generation

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 352-356

  Yuan, Xiaobu ^a   Yang, Simon X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multirobot coordination; Nanoassembly planning; Self organizing map (SOM); Shunting neural networks

Indexed keywords

MOTION PLANNING; NANOROBOTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

AUTOMATED MULTIROBOT; MUTIROBOT COORDINATION; NANOASSEMBLY PLANNING; NANOROBOTS; SHUNTING NEURAL NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34347384820     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.897282     Document Type: Article

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