Unifying geometric approach to real-time formation control

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 789-794

  Maithripala, D H A ^a   Maithripala, D H S ^b   Jayasuriya, S ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CONSTRAINED DYNAMICS; FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION KEEPING; FORMATION RECONFIGURATION; GEOMETRIC APPROACHES; GEOMETRIC FORMULATION; MOTION PLANNING ALGORITHM; NON-HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINT; RADAR DECEPTION; REAL-TIME MOTION PLANNING; REFERENCE TRAJECTORIES;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 52449093971     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2008.4586589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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