Object transportation by multiple mobile robots controlled by attractor dynamics: Theory and implementation

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 937-944

  Soares, Rui ^b   Bicho, Estela ^a   Machado, Toni ^a   Erlhagen, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATTRACTOR DYNAMICS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349141887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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