Motion planning for formations of mobile robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 65-78

  Barfoot, T D ^a   Clark, C M ^b  

^a MD Robotics ^*  (Canada)

^b 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Motion planning; Non holonomic constraint; Robot formations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; TRAJECTORIES;

NON-HARMONIC CONSTRAINTS; ROBOT FORMATIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0742307226     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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