On the state agreement problem for multiple unicycles with varying communication links

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4283-4288

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

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FEEDBACK CONTROL; KINEMATICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGY; KINEMATIC UNICYCLES; NONHOLONOMIC CONTROL LAW;

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EID: 34249096896     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.376819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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