Local Control Strategies for Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1006-1011

  Lin, Zhiyun ^a   Broucke, Mireille ^a   Francis, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

LOCAL CONTROL STRATEGIES; POLYGONS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542269203     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2003.1272699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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