A variable speed force field method for multi-robot collaboration

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2697-2702

  Wang, Dalong ^a   Liu, Dikai ^a   Dissanayake, Gamini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

F2 method; Force field; Motion planning; Multirobot collaboration; Variable speed

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION USE; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING;

FORCE FIELD; MULTIROBOT COLLABORATION; VARIABLE SPEED;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 34250685685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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