Decentralized control of autonomous swarm systems using artificial potential functions: Analytical design guidelines

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 159-164

  Kim, Dong H ^a   Wang, Hua O ^b   Ye, Guohua ^b   Shin, Seiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUNCTIONS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; STABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS (APF); LOCAL MINIMA; POTENTIAL FIELDS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14344260492     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2004.1428623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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