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Efficient Cooperation
of Heterogeneous
Robotic Agents
A Decentralized Framework
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I
n social and industrial facilities of the future such as
hospitals, hotels, and warehouses, teams of robots will be
deployed to assist humans in accomplishing everyday
tasks like object handling, transportation, or pickup and
delivery operations. In such a context, different robots
(e.g., mobile platforms, static manipulators, or mobile
manipulators) with different actuation, manipulation, and
perception capabilities must be coordinated to achieve
various complex tasks (e.g., cooperative parts assembly in
the automotive industry or loading and unloading of
palettes in warehouses) that require collaborative actions
with each other and with human operators (Figure 1).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2021.3064761
Date of current version: 23 April 2021
By Michalis Logothetis, George C. Karras, Konstantinos Alevizos, Christos K. Verginis,
Pedro Roque, Konstantinos Roditakis, Alexandros Makris, Sergio García,
Philipp Schillinger, Alessandro Di Fava, Patrizio Pelliccione, Antonis Argyros,
Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, and Dimos V. Dimarogonas
74 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * JUNE 2021
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