Circulation of curves using vector fields: Actual robot experiments in 2D and 3D workspaces

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1136-1141

  Gonçalves, Vinícius M ^a   Pimenta, Luciano C A ^a   Maia, Carlos A ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^a   Dutra, Bruno C O ^a   Michael, Nathan ^b   Fink, Jonathan ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D WORKSPACE; CONSTANT SPEED CONTROL; INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE; MULTIROBOTS; N-DIMENSIONAL SPACE; PATTERN GENERATION; QUADROTORS; ROBOTIC TASKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; TIME VARYING; VECTOR FIELDS;

ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTOR SPACES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77955580460     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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