Stability analysis of one-dimensional asynchronous swarms

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1848-1854

  Liu, Yang ^a   Passino, Kevin M ^a   Polycarpou, Marios ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronism; Communication delay; Discrete event systems; Stability; Swarms

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PROXIMITY SENSORS; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 0242333987     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2003.817942     Document Type: Article

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