Contraction analysis of time-delayed communications and group cooperation

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 712-717

  Wang, Wei ^a   Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication delays; Contraction; Group agreement; Group cooperation; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; CONTRACTION THEORY; GROUP COOPERATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645806748     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2006.872761     Document Type: Article

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