A distributed motion coordination strategy for multiple nonholonomic mobile robots in cooperative hunting operations

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 257-282

  Yamaguchi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative behavior; Distributed control; Formation controllability; Mobile robot troop; Nonholonomic mobile robotic system; Smooth time varying feedback

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MOTION ESTIMATION; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FORMATION CONTROLLABILITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037505791     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(03)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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