Kinematics and statics of cooperative multi-robot aerial manipulation with cables

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 7, Issue PART A, 2010, Pages 83-91

  Michael, Nathan ^a   Kim, Soonkyum ^a   Fink, Jonathan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTS; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; FORWARD AND INVERSE KINEMATICS; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; MULTIROBOTS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; STABLE STATIC EQUILIBRIUM; STATIC EQUILIBRIUM;

INVERSE KINEMATICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77953803193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-87677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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