Flocking with obstacle avoidance: A new distributed coordination algorithm based on Voronoi partitions

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1785-1790

  Lindhé, Magnus ^a   Ögren, Fetter ^a   Johansson, Karl Henrik ^b  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flocking; Multi robot systems; Obstacle avoidance; Swarming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

FLOCKING; MULTI ROBOT SYSTEMS; SWARMING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846179363     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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