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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Trajectory Design for Formations of Robots by Kinetic Energy Shaping
We develop a method for generating smooth trajectories for a set of mobile robots. Given two end configurations, by tuning one parameter, the user can choose an interpolating tra...
Calin Belta, Vijay Kumar
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Coverage Control for Mobile Sensing Networks
— This paper describes decentralized control laws for the coordination of multiple vehicles performing spatially distributed tasks. The control laws are based on a gradient desce...
Jorge Cortés, Sonia Martínez, Timur ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Randomized model predictive control for robot navigation
— We suggest a new navigation approach to mobile robots, within a nonlinear model predictive control framework where a navigation function is used as a control Lyapunov function....
Jorge L. Piovesan, Herbert G. Tanner
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Energy optimal speed control of devices with discrete speed sets
We obtain analytically, the energy optimal speed profile of a generic multi-speed device with a discrete set of speeds, to execute a given task within a given time. Current implem...
Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula
ICRA
2009
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Trajectory planning and control of an underactuated dynamically stable single spherical wheeled mobile robot
— The ballbot is a dynamically stable mobile robot that moves on a single spherical wheel and is capable of omnidirectional movement. The ballbot is an underactuated system with ...
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Holl...