Stability Analysis of Swarms in a Noisy Environment

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3573-3578

  Liu, Yanfei ^a   Passino, Kevin M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THEOREM PROVING;

SENSING NUTRIENTS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542319285     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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