Decentralized overlapping control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles

Automatica

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1285-1296

  Stipanović, Dušn M ^a   Inalhan, Gökhan ^a   Teo, Rodney ^b   Tomlin, Claire J ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Information flows; Large scale systems; Reliability; Robustness

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; INTERFEROMETRY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DECENTRALIZED OVERLAPPING CONTROL; INFORMATION FLOWS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 2942550882     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2004.02.017     Document Type: Article

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