Distributed shape control of homogeneous swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-53

  Kalantar, Shahab ^a   Zimmer, Uwe R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; MACHINE DESIGN; OCEANOGRAPHY; POSITION MEASUREMENT; ROBOTS;

ATTRACTION REPULSION FORCES; BATHYMETRIC MAPS; SWARM CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 33847734028     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-9002-y     Document Type: Article

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