Methodological remarks on contraction theory

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2537-2543

  Jouffroy, Jérôme ^a   Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; KALMAN FILTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

AUXILIARY SYSTEMS; CONTRACTION THEORY; VIRTUAL DYNAMICS;

LYAPUNOV METHODS;

EID: 14244256803     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2004.1428824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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