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TROB
2002
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14 years 7 days ago
Visual servoing via navigation functions
Abstract-- This paper presents a framework for visual servoing that guarantees convergence to a visible goal from almost every initially visible configuration while maintaining ful...
Noah J. Cowan, Joel Weingarten, Daniel E. Koditsch...
AUTOMATICA
2006
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14 years 20 days ago
A feedback stabilization and collision avoidance scheme for multiple independent non-point agents,
A navigation functions' based methodology, established in our previous work for centralized multiple robot navigation, is extended to address the problem of decentralized nav...
Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. ...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Towards constant velocity Navigation and collision avoidance for autonomous nonholonomic aircraft-like vehicles
Abstract— This paper presents a methodology for the decentralised control of multiple 3-dimensional nonholonomic agents. The proposed control scheme is based on Navigation Functi...
Giannis P. Roussos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
ICRA
2003
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 5 months ago
Vehicle motion planning using stream functions
– Borrowing a concept from hydrodynamic analysis, this paper presents stream functions which satisfy Laplace’s equation as a local-minima free method for producing potential-...
Stephen Waydo, Richard M. Murray
ICRA
2005
IEEE
141views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
On Computing Complex Navigation Functions
— This paper addresses the problem of efficiently computing robot navigation functions. Navigation functions are potential functions free of spurious local minima that present a...
Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Alexandre R. Fonseca, Guilh...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
253views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Switched UAV-UGV Cooperation Scheme for Target Detection
— We develop a switched cooperative control scheme, to coordinate groups of ground and aerial vehicles for the purpose of locating a moving target in a given area. We do so by st...
Herbert G. Tanner
ICRA
2009
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 7 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