Information structures to secure Control of rigid formations with leader-follower architecture

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2966-2971

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

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION STRUCTURE; LEADER-FOLLOWER ARCHITECTURE; RIGID FORMATIONS; STABLE RIGIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 23944509116     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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