Leader-follower formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots with input constraints

Automatica

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1343-1349

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Formations control; Geometric approach; Input constraints; Stabilization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEMS; STABILIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; FORMATIONS CONTROL; INPUT CONSTRAINTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 41949128492     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

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