A vision-based nonlinear decentralized controller for unmanned vehicles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-6

  Orqueda, Omar A A ^a   Fierro, Rafael ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OBSERVABILITY; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLERS; LYAPUNOV STABILITY; VISION SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 33845610409     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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