Pattern reconfiguration in swarms - Convergence of a distributed asynchronous and bounded iterative algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 485-490

  Beni, Gerardo ^a   Liang, Ping ^a  

^a United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOUNDED ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECONFIGURATION; SWARMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0030166486     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.499830     Document Type: Article

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