Cooperative hunting by distributed mobile robots based on local interaction

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 403-407

  Cao, Zhiqiang ^a   Tan, Min ^a   Li, Lei ^b   Gu, Nong ^c   Wang, Shou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Hunting; Local interaction; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EVADER; HUNTING; LOCAL INTERACTION; LOCAL INTERACTIONS WITH LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33645822336     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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