Potential based control strategy for arbitrary shape formations of mobile robots

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3762-3767

  Sabattini, Lorenzo ^a   Secchi, Cristian ^a   Fantuzzi, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COORDINATES TRANSFORMATION; LOCAL MINIMUMS; REGULAR POLYGON;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 76249094038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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