A connection between formation control and flocking behavior in nonholonomic multiagent systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 940-945

  Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGY; FLOCKING BEHAVIOR; HOLONOMIC KINEMATIC AGENTS; LYAPUNOV ANALYSIS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845624869     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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