A distributed parallel estimation architecture for cooperative vehicle formation control

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 4219-4224

  Smith, Roy S ^a   Hadaegh, Fred Y ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATE ESTIMATION;

DISTRIBUTED ACTUATION; IMAGING INSTRUMENTS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847660220     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2006.1657381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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