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CDC
2009
IEEE
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A hybrid control approach to multi-robot coordinated path following
— The paper studies the coordinated path following problem, namely, steering a group of unicycles to a given path while achieving an inter-vehicle formation pattern. A novel hybr...
Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Passive Coordination Control of Nonlinear Bilateral Teleoperated Manipulators
In this paper, a teleoperation controller is proposed for a pair of nonlinear master and slave manipulators. The control law enables the nonlinear robots to be perfectly coordinate...
Dongjun Lee, Perry Y. Li
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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Design and simulation of robust composite controllers for flexible joint robots
In this paper the control of exible joint manipulators is studied in detail. A composite control algorithm is proposed for the exible joint robots, which consists of two main part...
H. D. Taghirad, M. A. Khosravi
HYBRID
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Position and Force Control of Nonsmooth Lagrangian Dynamical Systems Without Friction
— Analyses of position and force control laws in the case of perfectly rigid bodies have been made so far with strong assumptions on the state of the contacts such as supposing t...
Sophie Chareyron, Pierre-Brice Wieber
ETFA
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Quantized optimal control of discrete-time systems
In this paper we consider a quantized discrete-time linear quadratic regulator (DLQR) problem, namely a DLQR problem where the input u may only take values in a given finite set ...
Daniele Corona, Alessandro Giua, Carla Seatzu
ICRA
2006
IEEE
198views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
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3D Navigation based on a Visual Memory
— This paper addresses the design of a control law for vision-based robot navigation. The method proposed is based on a topological representation of the environment. Within this...
Anthony Remazeilles, François Chaumette, Pa...
IROS
2007
IEEE
205views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Kinematic and dynamic control of a wheeled mobile robot
— This paper considers the problem of stabilizing a unicycle-type mobile robot using a time-invariant, discontinuous control law. In order to simplify the control design, most pr...
David DeVon, Timothy Bretl
ICRA
2007
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
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Image-Based Visual Servoing of the I4R parallel robot without Proprioceptive Sensors
— This paper proposes a method to control an I4R parallel robot by the observation of its legs with a calibrated camera. We show that the control law depends only on the edges of...
Tej Dallej, Nicolas Andreff, Philippe Martinet
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Impedance Behaviors for Two-handed Manipulation: Design and Experiments
— The control of humanoid manipulators is very challenging due to the large number of degrees of freedom and the resulting redundancy. Using joint-level control complex planning ...
Thomas Wimböck, Christian Ott, Gerd Hirzinger
ICRA
2007
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
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Decentralized, Adaptive Control for Coverage with Networked Robots
— A decentralized, adaptive control law is presented to drive a network of mobile robots to a near-optimal sensing configuration. The control law is adaptive in that it integrat...
Mac Schwager, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, Daniela Rus