An economical micro-car testbed for validation of cooperative control strategies

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1446-1451

  Hsich, Chung H ^a   Chuang, Yao Li ^a   Huang, Yuan ^a   Leung, Kevin K ^a   Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROL TESTBEDS; KINEMATIC MODELS;

AUTOMOBILES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MOTION CONTROL; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047201175     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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