Decentralized motion coordination for a formation of rovers

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 369-381

  Ray, Anjan Kumar ^a   Benavidez, Patrick ^b,c   Behera, Laxmidhar ^a,d   Jamshidi, Mo M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile robot navigation; Multi agent formation; Path planning; Robotic swarm; System of systems

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; MULTI-AGENT FORMATION; PATH PLANNING; ROBOTIC SWARM; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349649749     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2009.2031012     Document Type: Article

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