Moving formation convergence of a group of mobile robots via decentralised information feedback

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1019-1027

  Xie, Guangming ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Communication graph; Decentralised feedback; Formation control; Moving formation; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION GRAPH; DECENTRALISED FEEDBACK; FORMATION CONTROL; MOVING FORMATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 70449099587     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720902974603     Document Type: Article

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