A control Lyapunov function approach to multiagent coordination

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 847-851

  Ögren, Petter ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus ^b   Hu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinated control; Lyapunov methods; Mobile robots; Multirobot system; Robot formation control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; THEOREM PROVING; VELOCITY;

ROBOT FORMATION CONTROL;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036817714     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.804500     Document Type: Article

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