Density-based control of multiple robots

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 481-486

  Zhao, Sheng ^a   Ramakrishnan, Subramanian ^b   Kumar, Manish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; CONTROL POINT; COVERAGE CONTROL; DENSITY-BASED; FORCE PROFILE; MULTIPLE ROBOT; MULTIROBOTS; PATTERN GENERATION; SHAPE CONTROL; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; SPH METHODS; SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SWARM SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL FORCES;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 80053137639     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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