Geometric motion planning and formation optimization for a fleet of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3276-3281

  Bhatt, Rajankumar ^a   Tang, Chin Pei ^a   Krovi, Venkat ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation optimization; Nonholonomy; Performance evaluation; Team based multi agent motion planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VECTORS;

FORMATION OPTIMIZATION; NONHOLONOMY; TEAM-BASED MULTI-AGENT MOTION PLANNING; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT (WMR);

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 3042602747     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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