A complete and scalable strategy for coordinating multiple robots within roadmaps

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 283-292

  Peasgood, Mike ^a,b   Clark, Christopher M ^c   McPhee, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Labs Inc   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Mobile robots; Path planning; Trajectory planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING;

TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 42549129239     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.918056     Document Type: Article

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