Control of small formations using shape coordinates

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2510-2515

  Zhang, Fumin ^a   Goldgeier, Michael ^a   Krishnaprasad, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL;

BLOCKED DECOUPLED CONTROL; MOTION DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; SHAPE COORDINATES; SMALL FORMATIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0345308345     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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