Cooperative object transport in multi-robot systems: A review of the state-of-the-art

E Tuci, MHM Alkilabi, O Akanyeti - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in designing multi-robot systems
(hereafter MRSs) to provide cost effective, fault-tolerant and reliable solutions to a variety of …

Multirobot control strategies for collective transport

H Farivarnejad, S Berman - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One potential application of multirobot systems is collective transport, a task in which
multiple robots collaboratively move a payload that is too large or heavy for a single robot. In …

Decentralized sliding mode control for autonomous collective transport by multi-robot systems

H Farivarnejad, S Wilson… - 2016 IEEE 55th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a decentralized sliding mode control strategy for collective payload transport by
a team of robots. The controllers only require robots' measurements of their own heading …

Transporte multi-AGV de una carga: estado del arte y propuesta centralizada

F Espinosa, C Santos, JE Sierra-García - Revista Iberoamericana de …, 2020 - riunet.upv.es
[ES] Un vehículo de guiado automático (Automatic Guided Vehicle–AGV-en inglés) es un
sistema de transporte industrial completamente automatizado y alimentado por baterías …

Artificial potential field-based swarm finding of the unmanned surface vehicles in the dynamic ocean environment

G Tan, J Zhuang, J Zou, L Wan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Using multiple unmanned surface vehicle swarms to implement tasks cooperatively is the
most advanced technology in recent years. However, how to find which swarm the …

Transportation control of cooperative double-wheel inverted pendulum robots adopting Udwadia-control approach

C He, K Huang, X Chen, Y Zhang, H Zhao - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
The design and control for cooperative inverted pendulum robots are addressed in this
paper. A transportation system consisting of two double-wheel inverted pendulum robots is …

Coordinated path tracking of two vision-guided tractors for heavy-duty robotic vehicles

X Wu, Y Zhang, T Zou, L Zhao, P Lou, Z Yin - Robotics and Computer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Heavy-duty robotic vehicles are increasingly required to transport and position large-
quantity and large-scale objects in the manufacturing process. The load-carrying capacity of …

Cooperative transportation robot system using risk-sensitive stochastic control

S Yasuda, T Kumagai, H Yoshida - 2021 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method to determine control input on the basis of minimizing the risk-sensitive
cost function and show the results of an experiment in which the method was applied to a …

Collaborative trolley transportation system with autonomous nonholonomic robots

B Xia, H Luan, Z Zhao, X Gao, P Xie… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative object transportation using multiple robots has been intensively studied in the
control and robotics literature, but most approaches are either only applicable to …

A task priority approach to cooperative mobile manipulation: Theory and experiments

E Simetti, G Casalino, F Wanderlingh… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cooperative manipulation and transportation by means of multi-robot systems is a subject
that has received an increased interest in the last few years. In this work, a task priority …