Cooperative load transport: A formation-control perspective

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 742-750

  Bai, He ^a   Wen, John T ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative manipulators; force control; formation control; multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT VELOCITIES; CONTACT FORCES; CONTROL PERSPECTIVE; CONTROL PROBLEMS; COOPERATIVE MANIPULATOR; COOPERATIVE MANIPULATORS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL LAW; EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION; FLEXIBLE PAYLOADS; FORMATION CONTROL; NONLINEAR POTENTIAL; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS;

FORCE CONTROL; MANIPULATORS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 77955570657     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2052169     Document Type: Article

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