Flocking of multiple mobile robots based on backstepping

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 414-424

  Dong, Wenjie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Backstepping; decentralized control; flocking; formation control; nonlinear control; wheeled mobile robots

Indexed keywords

BACKSTEPPING TECHNIQUE; COMMUNICATION DELAYS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER; FLOCKING; FORMATION CONTROL; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NONHOLONOMICS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGULAR PERTURBATION THEORY; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

BACKSTEPPING; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MOBILE ROBOTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

CONTROLLERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS;

EID: 79952897719     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2010.2056917     Document Type: Article

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