Experiments of formation control with multirobot systems using the null-space-based behavioral control

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1173-1182

  Antonelli, Gianluca ^a   Arrichiello, Filippo ^a   Chiaverini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Formation control; Mobile robots; Multirobot systems (MRSs)

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR-BASED; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FORMATION CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS (MRSS); NULL-SPACE-BASED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL; ROBUST TASK; SPACE-BASED; STATIC AND DYNAMIC OBSTACLES;

INVERSE KINEMATICS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 70149119189     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2008.2004447     Document Type: Article

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