Nonsmooth analysis and sonar-based implementation of distributed coordination algorithms

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 3000-3005

  Robinson, Craig L ^a   Block, Daniel ^a   Brennan, Sean ^b   Bullo, Francesco ^a   Cortés, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; SENSORS; SONAR; VECTORS;

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR; GEOMETRIC OPTIMIZATION; NONSMOOTH ANALYSIS; SONAR SCANNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042534642     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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