Passivity as a design tool for group coordination

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 29-34

  Arcak, Murat ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RULES; GROUP COORDINATION; NEIGHBORING MEMBERS; OUTPUT VARIABLES;

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047211557     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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