Satisficing control for multi-agent formation maneuvers

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2433-2438

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^a   Curtis, J Willard ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MANEUVERABILITY; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE FEEDBACK; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AFFINE NONLINEAR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; INVERSE OPTIMALITY; MULTI AGENT FORMATION MANEUVERS; NONHOLONOMIC ROBOTS; STATE FEEDBACK CONTROL LAWS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036995114     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2002.1184200     Document Type: Article

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