Coordinated transportation with minimal explicit communication between robots

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 24-29

  Bicho, Estela ^a   Louro, Luis ^a   Erlhagen, Wolfram ^b  

^a Dept of Industrial Electronics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Attractor dynamics; Collision avoidance; Mobile robots; Object transportation

Indexed keywords

ROBOTS;

ATTRACTOR DYNAMICS; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; DISTRIBUTED DYNAMICS; EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION; FORCE/TORQUE SENSOR; GENERATED TRAJECTORIES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78149466310     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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