On the state agreement problem for multiple unicycles

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2016-2021

  Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; STABILITY CRITERIA; TOPOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION SETS; INTER-AGENT COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGY; NONHOLONOMIC CONTROL; NONHOLONOMIC KINEMATICS;

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 34047231689     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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