A Study of Supervisory Constraints in a Class of Coordinated Multiagent Systems

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1044-1049

  Fregene, Kingsley ^a,c   Kennedy, Diane ^b   Wang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous unmanned vehicles; Intelligent agents; Supervisory multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

HYBRID INTELLIGENT CONTROL AGENTS (HICA);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142169409     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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