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Journal of Robotics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 652785, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/652785
Research Article

Distributed Synchronization Control to Trajectory Tracking of Multiple Robot Manipulators

Yassine Bouteraa,1,2 Jawhar Ghommam,1 Gérard Poisson,2 and Nabil Derbel1

1Research Unit on Intelligent Control, Design & Optimization of Complex Systems, University of Sfax, Sfax Engineering School, BP W, Sfax 3038, Tunisia
2Laboratoire Prisme-Pôle IRAuS, Université d' Orléans, 63 Avenue de Lattre de Tassigny, 18020 Bourges Cedex, France

Received 1 January 2011; Revised 29 April 2011; Accepted 3 June 2011

Academic Editor: Yangmin Li

Copyright © 2011 Yassine Bouteraa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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