Experimental study of curvature-based control laws for obstacle avoidance

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3849-3854

  Zhang, Fumin ^a   O'Connor, Alan ^a   Luebke, Derek ^a   Krishnaprasad, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURVES; CURVATURE-BASED CONTROL; OBSTACLES; STEERING CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEERING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042644300     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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