Leader-follower formation control of multiple non-holonomic mobile robots incorporating a receding-horizon scheme

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 727-747

  Chen, Jian ^a,b   Sun, Dong ^a   Yang, Jie ^b   Chen, Haoyao ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Formation; Leader follower; Multiple mobile robots; Receding horizon.

Indexed keywords

CONTROL FRAMEWORK; ERROR CONVERGENCE; FAST CONVERGENCE RATE; FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION TRACKING; LEADER-FOLLOWER; LEADER-FOLLOWER APPROACH; LEADER-FOLLOWER FORMATIONS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; NON-HOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS; RECEDING HORIZON; ROBOT FORMATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 77951238211     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364909104290     Document Type: Article

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