Social potentials for scalable multi-robot formations

Proceedings-IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 73-80

  Balch, Tucker ^a   Hybinette, Maria ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS; SOCIAL POTENTIALS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE TEAMBOTS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; VECTORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0033690385     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844042     Document Type: Article

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