Coordinated collective motion of groups of autonomous mobile robots: Analysis of Vicsek's model

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 981-983

  Savkin, Andrey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Groups of autonomous vehicles; Multiagent coordination; Multirobot system; Robot formation control

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; THEOREM PROVING;

GROUPS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; MULTIAGENT COORDINATION; ROBOT FORMATION CONTROL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 3042682369     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.829621     Document Type: Article

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