Multi-robot nonlinear model predictive formation control: Moving target and target absence

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1502-1515

  Nascimento, Tiago P ^a   Moreira, António Paulo ^b   Scolari Conceição, André G ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Formation control; Mobile robotics; Multi robot system

Indexed keywords

FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MOVING TARGETS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOTS; NON-LINEAR MODEL;

MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; TARGET TRACKING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84887220335     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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