Decentralized control of cooperative robotic vehicles: Theory and application

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 852-864

  Feddema, John T ^a   Lewis, Chris ^a   Schoenwald, David A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Cooperative robots; Decentralized control; Stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; STABILITY; VEHICLES;

ROBOTIC VEHICLES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036817318     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.803466     Document Type: Article

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