On computing complex navigation functions

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3452-3457

  Pimenta, Luciano C A ^a   Fonseca, Alexandre R ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^a   Mesquita, Renato C ^a   Silva, Elson J ^a   Caminhas, Walmir M ^a   Campos, Mario F M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Finite element methods; Mobile robots; Motion planning; Navigation function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPLEX SHAPED WORKSPACES; CONTROL PROBLEM; LOCAL MINIMA; ROBOT NAVIGATION FUNCTIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846181334     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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