Single view depth estimation based formation control of robotic swarms: Fundamental design and analysis

2008 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation - Conference Proceedings, MED'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1156-1161

  Zhai, Shaohao ^a,b   Fidan, Bariş ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL SCHEMES; DEPTH ESTIMATION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FORMATION CONTROL; FUNDAMENTAL DESIGNS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SENSORS; INITIAL POSITION; LIMITED RESOLUTION; PRIOR INFORMATION; ROBOTIC SWARMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 52949135916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2008.4602268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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