### Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation

@inproceedings{culbertson_decentralized_2018,
title = {Decentralized {Adaptive} {Control} for {Collaborative} {Manipulation}},
abstract = {This paper presents a design for a decentralized adaptive controller that allows a team of agents to manipulate a common payload in \${\textbackslash}mathbbR{\textasciicircum}2\$ or \${\textbackslash}mathbbR{\textasciicircum}3\$. The controller requires no communication between agents and requires no a priori knowledge of agent positions or payload properties. The agents can control the payload to track a reference trajectory in linear and angular velocity with center-of-mass measurements, in angular velocity using only local measurements and a common frame, and can stabilize its rotation with only local measurements. The controller is designed via a Lyapunov-style analysis and has proven stability and convergence. The controller is validated in simulation and experimentally with four robots manipulating an object in the plane.},
booktitle = {2018 {IEEE} {International} {Conference} on {Robotics} and {Automation} ({ICRA})},
author = {Culbertson, Preston and Schwager, Mac},
month = may,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Angular velocity, Collaboration, Payloads, Robots, Stability analysis, Task analysis, Velocity measurement},
pages = {278--285},
month_numeric = {5}
}