Formation stabilization of multiple agents using decentralized navigation functions

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 49-56

  Tanner, Herbert G ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

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EID: 84959468180     PISSN: 23307668     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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