JL-2: A mobile multi-robot system with docking and manipulating capabilities

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-18

  Wang, Wei ^a   Yu, Wenpeng ^b   Zhang, Houxiang ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Docking mechanism; Manipulator; Mobile robot; Reconfigurable robot

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DOCKING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MECHANISMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTS;

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DOCKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM; DOCKING MECHANISMS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; RECONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; SPHERICAL JOINT;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 77957825210     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/7256     Document Type: Article

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