FPGA-based cooperative control of indoor multiple robots

International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 248-259

  Ha, Quang Phuc ^a   Yu, Ying Hao ^b   Quang, Nguyen Khanh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Field programmable gate array; FPGA; Perspective projection image ratio; PPIR; Robotic formationS; Slope based arc line arc turning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878275552     PISSN: 17568412     EISSN: 17568420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMECHS.2012.052220     Document Type: Article

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