Output-feedback formation tracking control of unicycle-type mobile robots with limited sensing ranges

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-47

  Do, K D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Formation tracking; Jump function; Mobile robot; Output feedback; Potential function

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; DESIGN; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OBSERVABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CONSTRUCTIVE METHODS; CONTROL IMPLEMENTATIONS; COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; FORMATION CONTROL DESIGNS; FORMATION TRACKING; JUMP FUNCTION; OBSERVER DESIGNS; OBSERVER ERRORS; OUTPUT FEEDBACK; OUTPUT FEEDBACKS; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS; REDUCED-ORDER OBSERVERS; ROBOT DYNAMICS; ROBOT VELOCITIES; SENSING RANGES; TRACKING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRACKING CONTROLS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 56349095503     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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