Nonsingular formation control of cooperative mobile robots via feedback linearization

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 826-831

  Yang, Erfu ^a   Gu, Dongbing ^a   Hu, Huosheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Cooperative control; Feedback linearization; Leader follower formation; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; DYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT LEARNING;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTS; LEADER-FOLLOWER FORMATIONS; LINEARIZED DYNAMICS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NON HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINT; STRUCTURAL SINGULARITIES;

FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION;

EID: 33846062254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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