Kinematic control of platoons of autonomous vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1285-1292

  Antonelli, Gianluca ^a   Chiaverini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Closed loop inverse kinematics; Formation control; Multirobot systems; Platoon of vehicles

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FORMATION CONTROL; INTERVEHICLE COMMUNICATION; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 33845536978     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.886272     Document Type: Article

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