Scanning and tracking with independent cameras-a biologically motivated approach based on model predictive control

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-302

  Avni, Ofir ^a   Borrelli, Francesco ^b   Katzir, Gadi ^c   Rivlin, Ehud ^a   Rotstein, Hector ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biologically motivated; MPC controllers; Target search; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SCANNING;

CHAMELEON HEAD; MPC CONTROLLERS; TARGET SEARCH;

CAMERAS;

EID: 39749165825     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-007-9057-4     Document Type: Article

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