INTELLIGENT ROBOTS FOR JOINT TRANSPORTATION TASKS: A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH
Toni Machado, Estela G. Bicho · 2010
The dream of an automated society, with autonomous machines capable of performing the work of humans came with us for several centuries. Humans have always try to compensate for their weaknesses with the construction of physical artifacts. Over time these devices have evolved and the humans were creating machines capable of performing the most arduous tasks. An example is the arduous task of transporting large objects, as illustrated in Figure 1.