Externally excited coordination of autonomous formations

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shames, Iman ^a   Yu, Changbin ^a   Fidan, Bariş ^a   Anderson, Brian D O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

A* search; Formation control; Multiagent system; Path planning; Sheepdog

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; TRAJECTORIES;

A; COLLISION-FREE TRAJECTORIES; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; CONTROL SCHEMES; FORMATION CONTROL; MULTIAGENT SYSTEM; MULTIPLE OBSTACLES; PATH PLANNING; REPULSIVE FORCES; SEARCH; SHEEPDOG; SIMULATION RESULTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 50249105238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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