Equilibria and steering laws for planar formations

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-38

  Justh, E W ^a   Krishnaprasad, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Formations; Moving frames; Relative equilibria; Stability

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEERING; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRAJECTORIES;

FORMATIONS; MOVING FRAMES; RELATIVE EQUILIBRIA;

PLANERS;

EID: 1842477775     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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