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A wide range of applications, such as those dealing with warehouse management, industrial assembling, military applications, daily\u2010life tasks, can benefit from multi\u2010robot systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose an intelligent system for industrial robotics in the logistic field, based on collaboration between heterogeneous robots.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The proposed infrastructure for this multi\u2010robot system is composed of a robots' network including one humanoid robot, wheeled robots, cameras, and remote computer. All devices can communicate between them by using wireless network. The goal of the humanoid robot is to lead the wheeled robots according to the environment and wheeled robots are used to carry a load. The camera allows providing complementary information about the environment; and thanks to machine learning, this control strategy allows complex tasks to be perormed for these logistic applications.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>This concept is implemented on real robots within the frame of a demonstrator including the above\u2010mentioned kind of robots. The preliminary results, obtained during experimentations, prove the feasibility of the presented strategy for real applications.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The main originalities of this work are, on the one hand, the use of an heterogeneous multi\u2010robots system for logistic tasks, and on the other hand, the proposed machine learning allows a collaboration task between heterogeneous robots in an autonomous manner.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/01439911211217071","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,4,28]],"date-time":"2012-04-28T07:20:11Z","timestamp":1335597611000},"page":"251-259","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Intelligent systems for industrial robotics: application in logistic field"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Ting","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Dominik M.","family":"Ramik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Christophe","family":"Sabourin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kurosh","family":"Madani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022021919584912000_b6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Balch, T. and Arkin, R.C. 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