Entrapment/escorting and patrolling missions in multi-robot cluster space control

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5855-5861

  Mas, Ignacio ^a   Li, Steven ^a   Acain, Jose ^a   Kitts, Christopher ^a  

^a Santa Clara University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster space; Escorting; Formation control; Multi robot systems; Robot teams

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS TARGET; CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTBED; FORMATION CONTROL; HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOTS; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; ROBOT FORMATION; ROBOT SYSTEM; ROBOT TEAMS; SPACE CONTROL; TRAJECTORY CONTROL;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 76349092908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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