Stability analysis of distributed autonomous vehicles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 887-892

  Schoenwald, David A ^a   Feddema, John T ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Lyapunov based control; Mobile robotics; Swarms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROLLABILITY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; OBSERVABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; MULTIPLE COOPERATIVE ROBOTIC VEHICLES; VECTOR LYAPUNOV METHOD;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 0036990569     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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