1A1-G10 A Coordinated System of Multiple Robots for Transportation of a Car -iCART- : 1st Report: Multiple Robot Systems Specialized for Transportation of a Car

Abstract

We propose a new car trasnportation system called iCART(intelligent Cooperative Autonomous Robot Transporters). This system is composed with two robot systems specialized for the car transportation. Robot systems are controlled by using a decentralized control algorithm for transporting the car in coordination. This car trasnportation system can transport any size of car, and is available for any kind of car transportations: parking, ballet parking, tow away service, and the transportation of cars at a factory, ferry, parking area, etc. The robot system of the car transportation system is composed with three modules: Mobile Base module, Lifter module and Connecting module. This paper describes details of mechanism of each module to transport the car. Experimental results illustrate the validity of the car transportation system.