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Mobile Manipulators: Expanding the Frontiers of Robot Applications

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Field and Service Robotics

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Mobile manipulation capabilities are key to many new applications of robotics in space, underwater, construction, and service environments. This article presents various control strategies developed for vehicle/arm coordination, compliant motion tasks, and cooperative manipulation between multiple platforms. These strategies have been implemented on two holonomic mobile platforms designed and built at Stanford in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Nomadic Technologies.

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  1. Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    Oussama Khatib

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  1. Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, ACT, 0200, Canberra, Australia

    Alexander Zelinsky PhD

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Khatib, O. (1998). Mobile Manipulators: Expanding the Frontiers of Robot Applications. In: Zelinsky, A. (eds) Field and Service Robotics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1273-0_2

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