Distributed geodesic control laws for flocking of nonholonomic agents

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2835-2840

  Moshtagh, Nima ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Daniilidis, Kostas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

KINEMATIC NONHOLONOMIC AGENTS; PROXIMITY GRAPH; VELOCITY ALIGNMENT; VELOCITY VECTORS;

GEODESY;

EID: 33847216197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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