Managing the dynamics of a harmonic potential field-guided robot in a cluttered environment

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 488-496

  Masoud, Ahmad A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Intelligent control; Nonholonomic robots; Trajectory generation

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; PLANNING; ROBOTS;

CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; CONSTRAINED PATHS; HARMONIC POTENTIAL FIELDS; INERTIAL FORCES; NAVIGATION CONTROLLERS; NON-HOLONOMIC; NONHOLONOMIC ROBOTS; PLANNING METHODS; SECOND-ORDER DYNAMICS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 60449106368     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.2002720     Document Type: Article

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