Social potential fields: A distributed behavioral control for autonomous robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-194

  Reif, John H ^a   Wang, Hongyan ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL;

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; POTENTIAL FIELDS; VERY LARGE SCALE ROBOTIC (VLSR) SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033620562     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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