Toward autonomous robotic containment booms: Visual servoing for robust inter-vehicle docking of surface vehicles

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Kim, Young Ho ^a   Lee, Sang Wook ^b   Yang, Hyun S ^b   Shell, Dylan A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autonomous surface vehicle; Disturbance rejection; Docking; Multirobot system; Oil spill; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS GROUND VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTROL FRAMEWORK; DISTURBANCE MEASUREMENT; DOCKING PROBLEMS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL FREE; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ROBOT; NONSTATIONARY; PHYSICAL CONTACTS; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; RECONFIGURABILITY; SENSOR MODELING; SPEED OF CONVERGENCE; STABLE OPERATION; SURFACE MATTER; SURFACE VEHICLES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TWO-LOOP CONTROLS; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; DOCKING; GROUND VEHICLES; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OIL SPILLS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SENSORS;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 84855335472     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-011-0100-0     Document Type: Article

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