A local sensor based leader-follower flocking system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3790-3795

  Wang, Zongyao ^a   Gu, Dongbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS; SCANNING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

LEADER-FOLLOWER; LOCAL SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649108630     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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