A distributed active-vision network-space approach for the navigation of a car-like wheeled robot

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 846-855

  Hwang, Chih Lyang ^a   Shih, Chin Yuan ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Car like wheeled robot (CLWR); Distributed active vision network space; Fuzzy variable structure decentralized control (FVSDC); Multiprocessor; Navigation; Obstacle avoidance; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CAR-LIKE WHEELED ROBOT (CLWR); DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE-VISION NETWORK SPACE; FUZZY VARIABLE-STRUCTURE DECENTRALIZED CONTROL (FVSDC); MULTIPROCESSOR; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 63149097872     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.2004388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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