Line and circle formation of distributed physical mobile robots

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 63-76

  Yun, Xiaoping ^a   Alptekin, Gokhan ^a   Albayrak, Okay ^a  

^a Code EC/YX ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANGE FINDERS;

DISTRIBUTED MOBILE ROBOTS; INFRARED RANGE SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031078531     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4563(199702)14:2<63::AID-ROB2>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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