Abstraction and control for groups of robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 865-875

  Belta, Calin ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Control; Lie group; Shape

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; SENSORS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ABSTRACTION; DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLD; INDIVIDUAL ROBOT CONTROLLERS; LIE GROUP; SHAPE MANIFOLD;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 10244227870     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829498     Document Type: Article

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