Autonomous industrial mobile manipulation (AIMM): Past, present and future

Industrial Robot

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-135

  Hvilshøj, Mads ^a   Bøgh, Simon ^a   Nielsen, Oluf Skov ^a   Madsen, Ole ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Manufacturing systems; Robotics

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GENERAL APPLICATIONS; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE MANIPULATION; PROCESS QUALITY; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS;

INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURE; ROBOTICS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84857837200     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911211201582     Document Type: Article

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