Region following formation control for multi-robot systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3796-3801

  Cheah, C C ^a   Hou, S P ^a   Slotine, J J E ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

FORMATION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 51649106228     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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