Towards a reliable vision-based mobile robot formation control

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3176-3181

  Renaud, Pierre ^a   Cervera, Enric ^b   Martinet, Philippe ^c  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b Robotic Intellegence Laboratory   (Spain)

^c LASMEA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CONTROL THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ODOMETRY; VIRTUAL STRUCTURES; ZOOM;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14044272275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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