Redundant manipulator techniques for path planning and control of a platoon of autonomous vehicles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 2093-2098

  Stilwell, Daniel J ^a   Bishop, Bradley E ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MOTION PLANNING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBOTICS; SYSTEM THEORY; TRANSPONDERS; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; TWO-LEVEL HIERARCHICAL CONTROL;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0036990722     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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