Closed-curve path tracking for decentralized systems of multiple mobile robots

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-123

  Sabattini, Lorenzo ^a   Secchi, Cristian ^a   Fantuzzi, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperative path tracking; Multi robot coordination; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS; ASYMPTOTIC CONVERGENCE; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL SYNCHRONIZATION; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; PATH TRACKING;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84878794190     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-012-9763-9     Document Type: Article

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