Coordination of multiple mobile robots with limited communication range in pursuit of single mobile target in cluttered environment

Journal of Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-446

  Zheng, Jianying ^a   Yu, Haibin ^b   Zheng, Meng ^b   Liang, Wei ^b   Zeng, Peng ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Limited communication range; Mobile network; Multirobot system; Probabilistic strategy; Target tracking; Coordinated control

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; LIMITED COMMUNICATION RANGE; MOBILE NETWORKS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC STRATEGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; TARGET TRACKING;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 78650114116     PISSN: 16726340     EISSN: 10008152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11768-010-8212-1     Document Type: Article

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