A hybrid visual servo controller for robust grasping by wheeled mobile robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 757-769

  Wang, Ying ^a,b   Lang, Haoxiang ^c   De Silva, Clarence W ^c  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Q learning; robustness; visual servoing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR POLICY; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CONTROL LAWS; FAST RESPONSE; FIELD OF VIEWS; HYBRID CONTROLLER; IMAGE-BASED; LYAPUNOV STABILITY; MACHINE-LEARNING; MOBILE MANIPULATION; Q-LEARNING; ROBUST OPERATION; ROBUSTNESS; ROBUSTNESS ISSUES; RULE BASED; SELF-LEARNING; VISION BASED; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL SERVO; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

CONTROLLERS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; REINFORCEMENT; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 77955458624     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2034740     Document Type: Article

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