Formation control and obstacle avoidance for multiple mobile robots

Zidonghua Xuebao/Acta Automatica Sinica

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 588-593

  Yang, Tian Tian ^a   Liu, Zhi Yuan ^a   Chen, Hong ^b   Pei, Run ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Formation control; Model predictive control; Nonholonomic mobile robot; Obstacle avoidance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COST FUNCTIONS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION;

FORMATION CONTROL; NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOT; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; TERMINAL STATE PENALTY TERM;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 44849128154     PISSN: 02544156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1004.2008.00588     Document Type: Article

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