Formation control and switching for multiple robots in uncertain environments

International Journal of Robotics and Automation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-249

  Yang, L ^a,b   Cao, Z ^a   Zhou, C ^a   Cheng, L ^a   Tan, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION   (China)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Formation control; Formation switching; Multi robot; Obstacle avoidance

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; FAULT TOLERANCE; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

COOPERATION; FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL PROBLEMS; FORMATION PARAMETER; MULTIROBOTS; OBSERVATION ANGLE; RELATIVE DISTANCES; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 77957549867     PISSN: 08268185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2316/journal.206.2010.3.206-3345     Document Type: Article

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