A Multisteering Trailer System: Conversion into Chained Form Using Dynamic Feedback

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 807-818

  Tilbury, Dawn ^a   Sørdalen, Ole Jakob ^b   Bushnell, Linda ^c   Sastry, S Shankar ^d  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Engineering Cybernetics the Norweigian Institute of Technology ^*  (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOTION PLANNING; STATE SPACE METHODS; STEERING; SYSTEM STABILITY;

DYNAMIC STATE FEEDBACK; MULTIINPUT CHAINED FORM; MULTISTEERING TRAILER SYSTEM; PARALLEL-PARKING MANEUVER; POINT-STABILIZATION; VIRTUAL AXLES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0029521708     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.478428     Document Type: Article

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