Flocking and Rendezvous in Distributed Robotics

Author:   Bruce A. Francis ,  Manfredi Maggiore
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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Pages:   105
Publication Date:   04 November 2015
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Author:   Bruce A. Francis ,  Manfredi Maggiore
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.883kg
ISBN:  

9783319247274


ISBN 10:   3319247271
Pages:   105
Publication Date:   04 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Models of Mobile Robots in the Plane.- Admissible Controls and the Robot Flocking Problem.- The Robot Rendezvous Problem: Limited Camera Range.- A Convoy Problem.- A Look into the Future: Flying Robots.

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Manfredi Maggiore was born in Genoa, Italy. He received the “Laurea"" degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from the University of Genoa and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University, USA, in 2000. Since 2000 he has been with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, where he is currently Professor. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (2001) and the University of Bologna (2007-2008). His research focuses on mathematical nonlinear control, and relies on methods from dynamical systems theory and differential geometry. Bruce Francis was born in Toronto, Canada. He received all three degrees (BASc, MEng, PhD) from the University of Toronto. He has held teaching and research positions at Berkeley, Cambridge (UK), McGill, Concordia, Yale, and Waterloo, and finally the University of Toronto from 1984 to 2011. He retired in 2011 and since then has been an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the author and co-author of seven books (counting An Introduction to Distributed Robotics). In 2015 he received the IEEE Control Systems Award.

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