Controlling formations of multiple mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue , 1998, Pages 2864-2869

  Desai, J P ^a   Ostrowski, J ^a   Kumar, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Control theory and Formations of robots; Nonholonomic motion planning

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTS; ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SENSORS;

FEEDBACK LAWS; LEADER-FOLLOWER; LOCAL SENSORS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; MULTIPLE ROBOT; NONHOLONOMIC MOTION PLANNING; RELATIVE DISTANCES; ZERO DYNAMICS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING; MOBILE ROBOTS;

MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT SYSTEMS; NONHOLONOMIC MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0031644169     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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