Motion planning in the presence of directional and regional avoidance constraints using nonlinear, anisotropic, harmonic potential fields: A physical metaphor

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 705-723

  Masoud, Samer A ^a   Masoud, Ahmad A ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Harmonic potential fields; Intelligent control; Mobile robot; Motion planning; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DIRECTIONAL AVOIDANCE CONSTRAINT; HARMONIC POTENTIAL FIELDS; REGIONAL AVOIDANCE CONSTRAINT;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0036881601     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2002.807030     Document Type: Article

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