@inproceedings{upm11727,
       booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2011},
           title = {Cooperative Task Execution between Modular Robots Based on Tight-Loose Cooperation Strategies},
          author = {Jose Antonio Baca Garcia and Claudio Rossi and Manuel Ferre P{\'e}rez and Rafael Aracil Santonja},
         address = {New Jersey, EEUU},
       publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Computer Society},
            year = {2011},
             url = {http://oa.upm.es/11727/},
        abstract = {The complexity in the execution of cooperative tasks is high due to the fact that a robot team requires movement coordination at the beginning of the mission and continuous coordination during the execution of the task. A variety of techniques have been proposed to give a solution to this problem assuming standard mobile robots. This work focuses on presenting the execution of a cooperative task by a modular robot team. The complexity of the task execution increases due to the fact that each robot is composed of modules which have to be coordinated in a proper way to successfully work. A combined tight and loose cooperation strategy is presented and a bar-pushing example is used as a cooperative task to show the performance of this type of system.}
}