Formation control of mobile robots with active obstacle avoidance

Zidonghua Xuebao/Acta Automatica Sinica

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 529-535

  Liu, Shi Cai ^a,b   Tan, Da Long ^a   Liu, Guang Jun ^c  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formation control; Obstacle avoidance; Relative motion states

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRACKING (POSITION);

FOLLOWER ROBOTS; FORMATION CONTROL; LEADER ROBOTS; NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS; RELATIVE BEARING; RELATIVE DISTANCE; RELATIVE MOTION STATES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250324693     PISSN: 02544156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/aas-007-0529     Document Type: Article

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