Leader-following formation control of multiple mobile vehicles

IET Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 545-552

  Shao, J ^a   Xie, G ^a   Wang, L ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE VEHICLES; FORMATION CONTROL; HYBRID CONTROL ARCHITECTURES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33847632430     PISSN: 17518644     EISSN: 17518652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta:20050371     Document Type: Article

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