Vision-based control laws for distributed flocking of nonholonomic agents

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2769-2774

  Moshtagh, Nima ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Daniilidis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FLOCKING; KINEMATIC AGENTS; NONHOLONOMIC AGENTS; VISION BASED CONTROL LAWS;

COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTICAL FLOWS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845630385     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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