Distributed control of multi-robot systems using bifurcating potential fields

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 256-264

  Bennet, Derek J ^a   McInnes, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation theory; Distributed control; Potential fields

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION THEORY; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FREE PARAMETERS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PATTERN FORMATION; POTENTIAL FIELD; RECONFIGURABILITY; SINGLE-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 75749091104     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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