Planning and control of UGV formations in a dynamic environment: A practical framework with experiments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1209-1214

  Hao, Yongxing ^a   Laxton, Benjamin ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Lee, Edward ^a   Benson, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dijkstra's algorithm; Dynamic environment; Formation control; Unmanned vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; TRAJECTORIES; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0345307631     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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