Planning and control of UGV formations in a dynamic environment: A practical framework with experiments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 101-110

  Hao, Yongxing ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

A; algorithm; Dynamic environment; Formation control; Unmanned vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GROUND VEHICLES; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTS; TRAJECTORIES;

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT; FORMATION CONTROL; INTER-VEHICLE COLLISION; MULTI-ROBOT PATH PLANNING;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 16844383116     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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