Strategies for and analytical solutions to near-optimal formation control of nonholonomic mobile vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3468-3483

  Qu, Zhihua ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Plaisted, Clinton E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WEATHER FORECASTING;

MULTI-ROBOT LOCALIZATION; NEAR-OPTIMAL FORMULATION CONTROL; NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE VEHICLES; UNMANNED AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 19944414661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-5425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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