Motion coordination for construction vehicles using swarm intelligence

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-476

  Kwok, N M ^a   Ha, Q P ^a   Fang, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural based collision avoidance; Multi vehicle coordination; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GROUND VEHICLES;

BEHAVIOURAL-BASED COLLISION AVOIDANCE~; MULTI-VEHICLE COORDINATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 36949022437     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/5672     Document Type: Article

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