A fuzzy leader-follower approach to formation control of multiple mobile robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2515-2520

  Sisto, Marianne ^a   Gu, Dongbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; MOTION CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS;

FORMATION POSITION CONTROL; FUZZY LEADER; NOISY SENSOR DATA; POSITION TRANSMISSION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250676834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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