Products of row stochastic matrices and their applications to cooperative control for autonomous mobile robots

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1066-1071

  Qu, Zhihua ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Hull, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; LINEAR FEEDBACK CONTROL; STOCHASTIC MATRICES;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 23944502340     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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