Region-based shape control for a swarm of robots

Automatica

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2406-2411

  Cheah, Chien Chern ^a   Hou, Saing Paul ^a   Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Co operative control; Lyapunov stability; Region following; Shape control; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; LYAPUNOV STABILITY; REGION FOLLOWING; SHAPE CONTROL; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 70049116221     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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