In the multiple fields covered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), path planning is undoubtedly one
of the issues that cover a wide range of research lines. To be able to find an optimal solution …

Distributed control has emerged as a major focus in the systems and controls area, with
multiagent robotics playing a prominent role both as a canonical instantiation of a system …

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 …

This paper proposes a novel decentralized algorithm that coordinates the forces of a group
of robots during a cooperative manipulation task. The highlight of our approach is that no …

We propose the concept of a Force-Amplifying N-robot Transport System (Force-ANTS) to
coordinate the manipulation forces from a group of robots in order to transport a heavy …

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 …

Swarms of low-cost autonomous robots can potentially be used to collectively perform tasks
over very large domains and time scales. Novel robots for swarm applications are currently …

Cooperative object transport in distributed multi-robot systems requires the coordination and
synchronisation of pushing/pulling forces by a group of autonomous robots in order to …

In industry, combination configurations composed of multiple Mecanum-wheeled mobile
robots are adopted to transport large-scale objects. In this paper, a kinematic model with …

This paper presents a brief survey of robotic caging and its applications. Caging is a kind of
gras** methods, which can be accomplished geometrically by position-controlled robotic …