Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 622-629

  Lin, Zhiyun ^a   Broucke, Mireille ^a   Francis, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Mobile autonomous agents

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRAPH THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; MOBILE AGENTS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 2442428325     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.825639     Document Type: Article

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