Formation planning and control of UGVs with trailers

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 257-270

  Hao, Yongxing ^a,b   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

A*algorithm; Cubic spline; Formation control; Trajectory optimization; Unmanned vehicles

Indexed keywords

CUBIC SPLINE; FORMATION CONTROL; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

KINEMATICS; LIGHT TRAILERS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; TRAJECTORIES; TRUCKS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 30344459415     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-005-4750-7     Document Type: Article

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