Leader-following formation of switching multirobot systems via internal model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 817-826

  Wang, Xiaoli ^a   Ni, Wei ^b   Wang, Xinsheng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Canonical internal model; formation; multirobot systems; switching topology

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DESIGN; DRIVING FORCES; DYNAMIC OUTPUT FEEDBACK; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; EXOSYSTEMS; FORMATION; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; INTERNAL MODELS; LEADER FOLLOWING; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; RELATIVE DISTANCES; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY;

DYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

TOPOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84862819399     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2011.2178022     Document Type: Article

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