Consensus strategies for cooperative control of vehicle formations

IET Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 505-512

  Ren, W ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AIR VEHICLE FORMATION FLYING; CONSENSUS-BASED FORMATION CONTROL; VIRTUAL STRUCTURE;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 33847647075     PISSN: 17518644     EISSN: 17518652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta:20050401     Document Type: Article

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