A fuzzy logic-based formation controller for wheeled mobile robots

Industrial Robot

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-281

  Amoozgar, Mohammad Hadi ^a   Alipour, Khalil ^b   Sadati, Seyed Hossein ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Constraint handling; Controllers; Fuzzy logic; Robots

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT HANDLING; CONTROL INPUT CONSTRAINTS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; FORMATION CONTROL; FUZZY CONTROLLERS; FUZZY LOGIC SYSTEM; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; HEADING ANGLES; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; KINEMATICAL METHOD; LEADER-FOLLOWER; NOISY SENSORS; NONHOLONOMICS; NOVEL METHODS; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; TWO STAGE; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLERS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 79955701639     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911111122770     Document Type: Article

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