Multirobot coordination in pick-and-place tasks on a moving conveyor

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 530-538

  Bozma, H Işl ^a   Kalaloglu, M E ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Distributed decision making; Flexible manufacturing; Multirobot tasks and coordination; Noncooperative games

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING; MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; MULTIROBOTS; NON-COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; NONCOOPERATIVE GAME; PICK-AND-PLACE; PICKING UP; ROBOT TEAMS; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE;

DECISION MAKING; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; ROBOTS;

CONVEYORS;

EID: 84859160734     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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