Stability Analysis of Stochastically Varying Formations of Dynamic Agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 504-509

  Gupta, Vijay ^a   Hassibi, Babak ^a   Murray, Richard M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBOTS; VECTORS;

DYNAMIC AGENTS; INFORMATION FLOW;

STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 1542648924     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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