Compliant formation control of a multi-vehicle system

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 479-484

  Macarthur, Erica Z ^a   Crane, Carl D ^b  

^a Innovative Automation Technologies LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Cooperative; Formation control; Ground robots; Virtual spring

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MOTION CONTROL; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLES;

COMPLIANT FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; GROUND ROBOTS; VIRTUAL SPRINGS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34948903806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2007.382911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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