Unmanned ground vehicle swarm formation control using potential fields

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Barnes, Laura ^a   Fields, Maryanne ^b   Valavanis, Kimon ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation control; Swarms

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MILITARY VEHICLES; SET THEORY; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; CONTROL VARIABLES; FORMATION CONTROL; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL FIELDS; SET CONSTRAINTS; SIGMOID FUNCTIONS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SWARM FORMATION; SWARM MEMBERS; SWARMS; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; USER-DEFINED CONSTRAINTS;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 50249118304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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