A new multi-objective control design for autonomous vehicles

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

Volumn 381, Issue , 2009, Pages 81-102

  Chunyu, Jiangmin ^a   Qu, Zhihua ^a   Pollak, Eytan ^b   Falash, Mark ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b Strategic Technologies Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative motion; Obstacle avoidance; Oscillation suppression; Tracking of virtual leader

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DESIGN; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION;

ANALYSIS AND DESIGNS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; BASIC CONDITIONS; CONTROL DESIGNS; CONTROL PROBLEMS; COOPERATIVE MOTION; LYAPUNOV ANALYSIS; MOVING OBSTACLES; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; NARROW PASSAGES; NONLINEAR CONTROL DESIGNS; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCES; OSCILLATION SUPPRESSION; POTENTIAL FIELDS; SIMULATION EXAMPLES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC OBSTACLES; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES; TRACKING; TRACKING OF VIRTUAL LEADER; URBAN SETTINGS; VIRTUAL LEADERS; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 54349120022     PISSN: 01708643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88063-9_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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