Artificial vector fields for robot convergence and circulation of time-varying curves in N-dimensional spaces

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2012-2017

  Gonçalves, Vinícius M ^a   Pimenta, Luciano C A ^a,b   Maia, Carlos A ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED CURVE; CONSTANT SPEED; CONTROL LAWS; N-DIMENSIONAL SPACE; SINGLE POINT; TIME VARYING; UNMANNED AIRPLANES; VECTOR FIELDS;

TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 70449670502     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2009.5160350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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