Motion feasibility of multi-agent formations

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 387-392

  Tabuada, Paulo ^a   Pappas, George J ^b   Lima, Pedro ^c  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Formations; Motion feasibility; Multi agent

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING;

FORMATION CONSTRAINTS; FORMATION GRAPHS; FORMATION MOTION FEASIBILITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 20844461097     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.839224     Document Type: Article

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