Cooperative control of multiple nonholonomic mobile agents

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1434-1448

  Dong, Wenjie ^a   Farrell, Jay A ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Decentralized control; Formation control; Mobile robots; Nonholonomic system; Nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; GRAPH THEORY; MOBILE ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; NONHOLONOMIC SYSTEM; NONLINEAR CONTROL;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 51449084491     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2008.925852     Document Type: Article

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