Stable flocking of swarms using local information

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 3921-3926

  Li, Xiaohai ^a   Xiao, Jizong ^a   Cai, Zhijun ^b  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Self organized group behavior; Swarms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TOPOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SELF-ORGANIZED GROUP BEHAVIOR; STABLE FLOCKING; SWARMS; VIRTUAL FORCES;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 27944496409     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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