Cooperative robot control and concurrent synchronization of lagrangian systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 686-700

  Chung, Soon Jo ^a   Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative manipulators; Distributed robot systems; Motion control; Networked robots; Networked teleoperation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYNCHRONIZATIONS; ARBITRARY NUMBER; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; COOPERATIVE MANIPULATORS; COOPERATIVE ROBOT CONTROL; DIFFUSIVE COUPLING; DISTRIBUTED ROBOT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; EXPONENTIAL SYNCHRONIZATION; LAGRANGIAN SYSTEM; NETWORKED ROBOTS; NETWORKED TELEOPERATION; NON-LINEAR STABILITIES; ROBOT MANIPULATOR; TRACKING CONTROLS;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MANIPULATORS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 67649249972     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2014125     Document Type: Article

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