Formation control and collision avoidance for multi-agent systems and a connection between formation infeasibility and flocking behavior

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 84-89

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

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE METHODS; VECTORS;

DECENTRALIZED NAVIGATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL STRATEGY; INTER-AGENT OBJECTIVES;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE;

EID: 33847220421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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