Controlling swarms of robots using interpolated implicit functions

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2487-2492

  Chaimowicz, Luiz ^a   Michael, Nathan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTERPOLATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SENSORS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLERS; DEGREE OF CONTROL; INTERPOLATED IMPLICIT FUNCTIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33751049638     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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