A novel approach to coordination of multiple robots with communication failures via proximity graph

Automatica

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1800-1805

  Fan, Yuan ^a,b,c   Feng, Gang ^a,c,d   Wang, Yong ^b,c   Qiu, Jianbin ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Communication failure; Distributed algorithms; Graph theory; Multi robot coordination

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; COORDINATION PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; ERGODICS; LIMITED COMMUNICATION RANGE; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; MULTIPLE ROBOT; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PROXIMITY GRAPHS; ROBOT GROUP;

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRAPH THEORY; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79960918620     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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