Laplacian sheep: A hybrid, stop-go policy for leader-based containment control

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3927 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 212-226

  Ferrari Trecate, G ^a,b   Egerstedt, M ^c   Buffa, A ^d   Ji, M ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; MOBILE ROBOTS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL STRATEGY; DEDICATED LEADER-AGENTS; HYBRID STOP-GO POLICY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 33745780941     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11730637_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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