Arbitrarily shaped formations of mobile robots: Artificial potential fields and coordinate transformation

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-397

  Sabattini, Lorenzo ^a   Secchi, Cristian ^b   Fantuzzi, Cesare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily shaped formations; Artificial potential fields; Coordinate transformation; Formation control

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARILY SHAPED FORMATIONS; ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FORMAL PROOFS; FORMATION CONTROL; LOCAL MINIMUMS; REGULAR POLYGON;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 79958297171     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-011-9225-4     Document Type: Article

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