Formation control for a cooperative multi-agent system using decentralized navigation functions

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1346-1351

  Gennaro, Maria Carmela De ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM; DECENTRALIZED NAVIGATION FUNCTIONS; FORMATION CONTROL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 34047237115     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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