Information Invariants for Distributed Manipulation

1 October 1997

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in The International Journal of Robotics Research

Vol. 16 (5) , 673-702
https://doi.org/10.1177/027836499701600506

Abstract

In Donald (1995), we described a manipulation task for coop erating mobile robots that can push large, heavy objects. There, we asked whether explicit local and global communication between the agents can be removed from a family of pushing protocols. In this article, we answer in the affirmative. We do so by using the general methods of Donald (1995), analyzing information invariants.

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