A decentralized cooperative control scheme with obstacle avoidance for a team of mobile robots

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 347-354

  Rezaee, Hamed ^a   Abdollahi, Farzaneh ^a,b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Local minima; Mobile robots; Multiagent systems; Obstacle avoidance

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AVOIDING OBSTACLE; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; LOCAL MINIMUMS; REGULAR POLYGON; REPULSIVE FORCES; ROTATIONAL POTENTIAL; VIRTUAL STRUCTURES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84880872555     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2245612     Document Type: Article

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