High Precision Formation Control of Mobile Robots Using Virtual Structures

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 387-403

  Lewis, M Anthony ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Tan, Kar Han ^a,b,c,g  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UCLA Commotion Robotics Lab   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autonomous robotics; Collective behavior; Cooperative mobile robotics; Formation control; Moving in formation; Virtual structures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; POSITION CONTROL; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTICS; FORMATION CONTROL; VIRTUAL STRUCTURE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031247152     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008814708459     Document Type: Article

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