Coordinated path following control of multiple wheeled robots

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 382-387

  Ghabcheloo, Reza ^a   Pascoal, António ^a   Silvestre, Carlos ^a   Kaminer, Isaac ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

^b Naval Postgraduate School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinated motion control; Path following; Wheeled robots

Indexed keywords

FLEET OPERATIONS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

COORDINATED PATH FOLLOWING CONTROLS; COORDINATION SYSTEMS; GAIN SCHEDULING CONTROL; INTER VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE; PARTIAL INFORMATION; ROBOT COORDINATION; VEHICLE FORMATIONS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 33749058847     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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