Robust control systems of a heavy material handling agricultural robot: A case study for initial cost problem

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1038-1048

  Sakai, Satoru ^a,b   Osuka, Koichi ^c   Maekawa, Takahiro ^d   Umeda, Mikio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NISSAN MOTOR CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

synthesis.; Active vision; Agricultural robots; Gain scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MANIPULATORS; MATERIALS HANDLING; ROBUST CONTROL; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

ACTIVE VISION; AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; GAIN-SCHEDULING;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 36249031524     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2007.899710     Document Type: Article

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