Reconfiguration of a group of wheel-manipulator robots based on MSV and CSM

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-239

  Wang, Minghui ^a   Ma, Shugen ^a,b   Li, Bin ^a   Wang, Yuechao ^a  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Configuration state matrix; Group configuration; Module state vector; Wheel manipulator robot

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION STATE MATRIX; GROUP CONFIGURATION; MANIPULATOR ROBOTS; MODULE STATE VECTOR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ROBOTIC MODULES; STATE MATRICES; STATE VECTOR;

MANIPULATORS; WHEELS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 67349112907     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2014371     Document Type: Article

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