An Informationally-Open, Organizationally-Closed Control Structure for Navigating a Robot in an Unknown, Stationary Environment

IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 614-619

  Masoud, Ahmad A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; HYBRID COMPUTERS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BEHAVIOR GENERATION MECHANISMS (BGM); CONTROL STRUCTURES;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0345097314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/isic.2003.1254707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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