Robust source-seeking hybrid controllers for nonholonomic vehicles

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2722-2727

  Mayhew, Christopher G ^a   Sanfelice, Ricardo G ^b   Teel, Andrew R ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; SYSTEM STABILITY; VEHICLES;

CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEMS; CONTROL SIGNALLING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVERGENCE AND STABILITY; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; HYBRID CONTROLLERS; INTERNAL STATES; NON-HOLONOMIC; NON-HOLONOMIC VEHICLES; NON-LINEAR FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 52449086725     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2008.4586904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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