A neuro-fuzzy controller for mobile robot navigation and multirobot convoying

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 829-840

  Ng, Kim C ^a,b   Trivedi, Mohan M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convoying behavior; Fuzzy logic controller; Hall centering behavior; Learning; Mobile robot navigation; Neural networks; Sensor driven robots; Team robotics; Wall following behavior

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTERPOLATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; MULTIROBOT CONVOYING; NEURAL INTEGRATED FUZZY CONTROLLERS (NIF-T); OUTPUT-REFINEMENT NEURAL NETWORKS (OFNN); RULE NEURAL NETWORKS (RNN);

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032287655     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.735392     Document Type: Article

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