A vision-based formation control framework

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 813-825

  Das, Aveek K ^a   Fierro, Rafael ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Ostrowski, James P ^a   Spletzer, John ^a   Taylor, Camillo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative localization; Formation control; Hybrid control; Nonholonomic mobile robots

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REUSABILITY; SENSORS;

COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036818115     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.803463     Document Type: Article

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