A hierarchical cyclic pursuit scheme for vehicle networks

Automatica

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1045-1053

  Smith, Stephen L ^a   Broucke, Mireille E ^a   Francis, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Cooperative control; Hierarchies; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COOPERATIVE CONTROL CONTROLS; HIERARCHIES; VEHICLE NETWORKS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 17644388441     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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