The virtual wall approach to limit cycle avoidance for unmanned ground vehicles

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 645-657

  Ordonez, Camilo ^a   Collins Jr , Emmanuel G ^a   Selekwa, Majura F ^b   Dunlap, Damion D ^a  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluttered environments; Local minima; Robot navigation

Indexed keywords

DELTA SIGMA MODULATION; ENCLOSURES; FUZZY LOGIC; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; LABELING; MILITARY VEHICLES; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STAGES; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

(U ,V) OPERATOR; APPLIED (CO); CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; DETECTION STAGE; ELSEVIER (CO); FUZZY BEHAVIORS; LIMIT CYCLE PROBLEM; LIMIT CYCLING; REACTIVE ALGORITHMS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE (UGV ); VIRTUAL SENSORS; VIRTUAL WALLS; WAY POINTS;

GROUND VEHICLES;

FUZZY LOGIC; MILITARY ENGINEERING; ROADS; ROBOTS; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT; VEHICLES;

EID: 47249165658     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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