Distributed coordination architecture for multi-robot formation control

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 324-333

  Ren, Wei ^a   Sorensen, Nathan ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus algorithm; Coordination; Formation control; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

CONSENSUS ALGORITHM; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION ARCHITECTURE; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 40849086248     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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