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- From: sarkar@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Nilanjan Sarkar)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Mobile Robots - Planning and Control
- Message-ID: <102392@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 23:15:36 GMT
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- Organization: General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Lab,
- University of Pennsylvania
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- I am looking for pointers towards merging algorithms of mobile robots.
- To put it more clearly, I will appreciate any information regarding
- research works on the planning and controls of wheeled mobile robots
- while they want to enter a highway or exit from a stream of autonomous
- vehicle or try to change lanes.
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- Wheeled mobile robots are nonholonomic dynamic systems and
- consequently quite difficult to control. I have done some work on the
- path following of such systems. But merging or exiting or changing
- lanes will involve planning and controls in the presence of
- dynamically varying obstacles.
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- Please send me mail or post on the news group if you know any information
- about it or are willing to discuss the research issues.
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- Thanks a lot.
-
-
- Nilanjan
-
- P.S. I assume that similar works may have been done in the area of
- vehicle dynamics. I will appreciate if you can give some reference.
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