Non-linear co-ordinated path following control of multiple wheeled robots with bidirectional communication constraints

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 133-157

  Ghabcheloo, R ^a   Pascoal, A ^a   Silvestre, C ^a   Kaminer, I ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Co ordinated motion control; Graph theory; Path following; Wheeled robots

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS; COORDINATED MOTION CONTROL; PATH FOLLOWING; WHEELED ROBOTS;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 33947355041     PISSN: 08906327     EISSN: 10991115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acs.923     Document Type: Article

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