Controlling swarms of mobile robots for switching between formations using synchronization concept

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2300-2305

  Sun, Dong ^a   Wang, Can ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Formation; Mobile robots; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SWITCHING; TRACKING (POSITION);

POSITION ERRORS; SYNCHRONIZATION ERROR; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 36349020797     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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