A distributed control framework for motion coordination of teams of autonomous agricultural vehicles

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 284-297

  Vougioukas, Stavros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FINITE HORIZONS; MASTER-SLAVE; MOTION COORDINATION; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE TRACKING CONTROLLERS; OPERATING MODES; OPERATION MODE; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PEER TO PEER; PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER; PROJECTED MOTION; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TRACKING ERRORS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

AGRICULTURE;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84868008638     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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