Formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 5602-5607

  Dong, W J ^a   Guo, Yi ^b   Farrell, J A ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DESIGN; FORMATION CONTROL; LYAPUNOV THEORY; NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34047228029     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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