Stable Flocking of Mobile Agents Part II: Dynamic Topology

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2016-2021

  Tanner, Herbert G ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^b   Pappas, George J ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROL INTERCONNECTIONS; MOBILE AGENTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1542290124     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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