Principles to control autonomous formation merging

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 762-768

  Yu, Changbin ^a   Fidan, Bariş ^a   Anderson, Brian D O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTROL AUTONOMOUS FORMATION; GLOBALLY RIGID FORMATION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 34047236584     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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