Hybrid Control of Reconfigurable Robot Formations

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 4607-4612

  Fierro, Rafael ^a   Das, Aveek K ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTS;

HYBRID CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0142199969     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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