Cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-86

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial robotics; Cooperative manipulation; Multi robot control; Parallel manipulators

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTICS; AERIAL ROBOTS; COOPERATIVE MANIPULATIONS; MULTIPLE ROBOT; MULTIROBOTS; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; ROBOT CONFIGURATIONS; STATIC EQUILIBRIUM; THREE DIMENSIONS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MANIPULATORS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79951551108     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-010-9205-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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