Applications of collective circular motion control to multirobot systems

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1416-1422

  Zhang, Hai Tao ^a   Chen, Zhiyong ^b   Yan, Long ^a   Yu, Wenwu ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collective circular motions; decentralized control; multiagent systems (MASs); nonholonomic vehicles

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR MOTION; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL CONTROL; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (MASS); NONHOLONOMIC VEHICLES; THEORETICAL DESIGN; THEORETICAL RESEARCH;

ALGORITHMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84879920514     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2012.2200679     Document Type: Article

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