A class of attraction/repulsion functions for stable swarm aggregations

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2842-2847

  Gazi, Veysel ^a   Passino, Kevin M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ATTRACTION FUNCTIONS; CONTINUOUS TIME SWARM MODEL; REPULSION FUNCTIONS; STABLE SWARM AGGREGATIONS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 0036992766     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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