Vision-based, distributed control laws for motion coordination of nonholonomic robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 851-860

  Moshtagh, Nima ^a,b   Michael, Nathan ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Daniilidis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS COMPANY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Distributed coordination; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL LAW; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED MOTION COORDINATION; GROUND ROBOT; MOTION COORDINATION; NON-HOLONOMIC ROBOT; NONHOLONOMICS; TEAM MEMBERS; TIME TO COLLISION; VISION BASED; VISION-BASED CONTROL; VISUAL SENSOR;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MOTION PLANNING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; ROBOTS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 69249232106     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2022439     Document Type: Article

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