Interesting conjugate points in formation constrained optimal multi-agent coordination

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1871-1876

  Hu, Jianghai ^a   Prandini, Maria ^b   Tomlin, Claire ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; MOTION PLANNING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CENTROIDS; DISTANCE-MINIMIZING GEODESICS; INFINITESIMAL PERTURBATIONS; MOTION PLANNING PROBLEM;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23944522378     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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