Stable social foraging swarms in a noisy environment

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-44

  Liu, Yanfei ^a   Passino, Kevin M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological systems; Foraging; Multiagent systems; Stability analysis; Swarming

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; FORAGING; SWARMING;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0742269302     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2003.821416     Document Type: Article

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