Multi-vehicle consensus with a time-varying reference state

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 56, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 474-483

  Ren, Wei ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus seeking; Cooperative control; Coordination; Multi vehicle systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

CONSENSUS SEEKING; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; MULTI VEHICLE SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING REFERENCE STATES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34249061718     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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