Following the flock: Distributed formation control with omnidirectional vision-based motion segmentation and visual servoing

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 14-20

  Vidal, René ^a   Shakernia, Omid ^b   Sastry, Shankar ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

DISTRIBUTED FORMATION CONTROL; MOTION SEGMENTATION; PANORAMIC CAMERAS; VISUAL SERVOING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 12444330437     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2004.1371604     Document Type: Article

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