A novel hybrid navigation scheme for reconfigurable multi-agent teams

International Journal of Robotics and Automation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-108

  Ren, J ^a   McIsaac, K A ^a   Patel, R V ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b IEEE   (Canada)

^c ASME   (Canada)

^d IEEE   (Canada)

^e IEEE/ASME ^*

Author keywords

Hybrid methods; Potential field methods; Robot navigation

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYBRID COMPUTERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HYBRID METHODS; POTENTIAL-FIELD METHODS; RECONFIGURATION MECHANISMS; ROBOT NAVIGATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744805843     PISSN: 08268185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2316/journal.206.2006.2.206-2794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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