A geometric characterization of leader-follower formation control

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2397-2402

  Consolini, Luca ^a   Morbidi, Fabio ^b   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^b   Tosques, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY; POSITION CONTROL;

ADMISSIBLE CURVATURE; FORMATION CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL MULTIROBOTS; NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 36349024673     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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