Distributed multi-robot work load partition in manufacturing automation

4th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 504-509

  Tewolde, Girma S ^a   Changhua, Wu ^a   Yu, Wang ^b   Sheng, Weihua ^c  

^a KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; LOADS (FORCES); MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

BALANCED ALLOCATIONS; COST OF SERVICING; DATA COLLECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCING; ESSENTIAL SERVICES; LOAD IMBALANCES; LOAD SHARES; MANUFACTURING AUTOMATIONS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOTS; POINTS OF INTERESTS; POTENTIAL FORCES; RANDOM DEPLOYMENTS; VIRTUAL FORCES; WORK LOADS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 54949083525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2008.4626504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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