Analysis of coordination in multi-agent systems through partial difference equations

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1058-1063

  Ferrari Trecate, Giancarlo ^a,b   Buffa, Annalisa ^c   Gati, Mehdi ^d  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d RENAULT   (France)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Decentralized control; Formation control; Networked autonomous vehicles; Partial difference equations

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; NETWORKED AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745700826     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2006.876805     Document Type: Article

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