Formation control with virtual leaders and reduced communications

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1854-1860

  Xi, Aorui ^a   Abed, Eyad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DATA TRANSFER; FEEDBACK CONTROL;

AGENT COLLISIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW; FORMATION CONTROL; MOBILE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; VIRTUAL LEADERS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 33847230232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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