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Cooperating Multiple Behavior-Based Robots for Object Manipulation

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Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

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A multiple vehicle robot system for cooperative object manipulation is described. This system consists of a host and several distributed behavior-based vehicle robot agents. A strategy on cooperatively organizing the behavior-based robots which only have limited ability in manipulation is discussed. An extended subsumption architecture, which has some layers for manipulation and cooperation, is built for each vehicle robot. A simulator and some simulation results are shown also.

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  1. Dept. of Mechanical Intelligence, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, 980-77, Japan

    Zhi-Dong Wang, Eiji Nakano & Takuji Matsukawa

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  1. The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, 351-01, Wako, Saitama, Japan

    Hajime Asama (Research Scientist) & Isao Endo (Chief Researcher) (Research Scientist) &  (Chief Researcher)

  2. Department of Mechano-Informaatics and Systems, Nagoya University, Furo, 464-01, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

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  3. Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Tamio Arai (Professor) (Professor)

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Wang, ZD., Nakano, E., Matsukawa, T. (1994). Cooperating Multiple Behavior-Based Robots for Object Manipulation. In: Asama, H., Fukuda, T., Arai, T., Endo, I. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68275-2_33

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