Sensor and Network Topologies of Formations with Direction, Bearing and Angle Information between Agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 3064-3069

  Eren, Tolga ^a   Whiteley, Walter ^b   Morse, A Stephen ^a   Belhumeur, Peter N ^c   Anderson, Brian D O ^d  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

MAINTENANCE LINKS; RIGIDITY THEORY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 1542348640     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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