A graph theoretic approach for modeling mobile robot team formations

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 511-525

  Desai, Jaydev P ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS;

CONTROL GRAPHS; SENSOR NOISE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036875705     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.10057     Document Type: Article

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