Consensus based formation control strategies for multi-vehicle systems

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 4237-4242

  Ren, Wei ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATION CONTROL; INFORMATION FLOW; VIRTUAL STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947706581     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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