On the convergence of Braitenberg vehicle 3a immersed in parabolic stimuli

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2346-2351

  Rañó, Iñaki ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Braitenberg Vehicles; Stability; Target reaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; CONDITIONAL STABILITY; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; MOBILE ROBOT CONTROLLER; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE THEORY; TARGET REACHING; VEHICLE MOTION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS; VEHICLES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455200961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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