Steering laws and continuum models for planar formations

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3609-3614

  Justh, E W ^a   Krishnaprasad, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEERING; VEHICLES;

CONTINUUM MODELS; CURVATURE CONTROLS; VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542349343     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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