Modeling and optimization of energy consumption in cooperative multi-robot systems

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 423-428

  Vergnano, Alberto ^a   Thorstensson, Carl ^b   Lennartson, Bengt ^b   Falkman, Petter ^b   Pellicciari, Marcello ^a   Leali, Francesco ^a   Biller, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy optimization; mathematical programming; robot cells; scheduling and coordination; system modeling and simulation

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; EXECUTION TIME; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARAMETERIZED; ROBOT CELLS; SCHEDULING MODELS; SYSTEM MODELING AND SIMULATION; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; SCHEDULING;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84859764431     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2011.2182509     Document Type: Article

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