A harmonic potential field approach for navigating a rigid, nonholonomic robot in a cluttered environment

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3993-3999

  Masoud, Ahmad A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; HARMONIC POTENTIAL FIELDS; NON-HOLONOMIC ROBOT; SIMULATION RESULT; SYNCHRONIZING SIGNAL;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PLANNING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70350359876     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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