Potential-based obstacle avoidance in formation control

Journal of Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-316

  Wang, Jia ^a   Wu, Xiaobei ^a   Xu, Zhiliang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electric field; Formation control; Obstacle avoidance; Potential function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRIC FIELD; FORMATION CONTROL; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS;

STATE FEEDBACK;

EID: 51649107372     PISSN: 16726340     EISSN: 10008152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11768-008-6222-z     Document Type: Article

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