Formation control for mobile multiple robots based on hierarchical virtual structures

2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 393-398

  Yuan, Jian ^a   Tang, Gong You ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL SCHEMES; FINITE TIME; FINITE TIME STABILITY; FINITE-TIME TRACKING CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; MULTIPLE ROBOT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; STEERING ANGLE ERROR; VARIABLE STRUCTURES; VIRTUAL STRUCTURES;

CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; TRAJECTORIES;

STATE FEEDBACK;

EID: 77957867757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCA.2010.5524078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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