Formation path following control of unicycle-type mobile robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 727-736

  Ghommam, Jawhar ^a   Mehrjerdi, Hasan ^b   Saad, Maarouf ^b   Mnif, Faiçal ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Formation control; Nonholonomic robot; Path following; Virtual structure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FORMATION CONTROL; KINEMATIC MODEL; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; MULTIROBOTS; NON-HOLONOMIC ROBOT; PATH FOLLOWING; PATH FOLLOWING CONTROL; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; THEORETICAL RESULT; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; VIRTUAL STRUCTURES;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; KINEMATICS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77950295889     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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