Advanced control and application of multiple mobile manipulators

移动操作是机器人研究的一个快速发展的领域。与传统的机器人研究领域不同，如感知、运动规划、操纵、控制、认知和人工智能，这些研究领域专注于特定的任务或应用，移动操纵寻求开发能够解决现实世界环境中广泛应用的集成机器人系统。移动操作旨在将理论工作与实验平台相结合，以促进机器人在移动和操作方面的能力。因此，它们可以结合移动平台和机械臂的优点，减少缺点，广泛应用于不同的工业和生产领域，如卫生、采矿、建筑、救援任务或老年人和/或残疾人的日常援助。

Mobile manipulation is a fast-growing area of robotics research. Unlike those traditional robotics research areas such as perception, motion planning, manipulation, control, cognition, and artificial intelligence, which are focused on a specific task or application, the mobile manipulation seeks to develop integrated robotic systems capable of addressing a wide range of applications in real-world environments. Mobile manipulation aims to integrate the theoretical work and experimental platform to facilitate robotics capabilities in both mobility and manipulation. Thus, they can combine the advantages of mobile platforms and robotic arms and reduce the drawbacks, to be widely applied in different industrial and productive fields, such as health, mining, construction, rescue missions or daily assistance for senior and/or disabled.