Motion planning for mobile robotics using the generalized sigmoid function

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2393-2398

  Ren, Jing ^a   McIsaac, Kenneth A ^a   Huang, Xishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS;

ARBITRARY SHAPES; GOAL-FINDING TASKS; MOBILE ROBOTICS; SIGMOID FUNCTIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042539611     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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