Navigation of multiple input constraint micro-robotic agents

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 665-670

  Loizou, Savvas G ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Input constraints; Micro robots; Multi agent navigation; Switching control

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS;

GLOBAL CONVER-GENCE; INPUT CONSTRAINTS; MICRO ROBOTS; MULTI-AGENT NAVIGATIONS; MULTI-ROBOT NAVIGATION; MULTIPLE INPUTS; SWITCHING CONTROL; SWITCHING CONTROLLERS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 43049163671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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