Control of swarms based on hydrodynamic models

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1948-1953

  Pimenta, Luciano C A ^a   Michael, Nathan ^b   Mesquita, Renato C ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MOBILE ROBOTS; SMOOTHED-PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS METHOD;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649090204     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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