Abstraction and control for swarms of robots

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2005, Pages 224-233

  Belta, Calin ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; IEEE STANDARDS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

CAR-LIKE ROBOT; DECOUPLED CONTROL; GROUP BEHAVIOR; OMNIDIRECTIONAL CAMERAS; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; PRODUCT STRUCTURE; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; SHAPE MANIFOLD;

LIE GROUPS;

EID: 84876130370     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11008941_24     Document Type: Article

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