Flocking of multi-vehicle systems with a leader

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5948-5953

  Liu, Bo ^a   Chu, Tianguang ^a   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Flocking, multi vehicle systems; White Gaussian noise

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GRAPH THEORY; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; TOPOLOGY; WHITE NOISE;

BASIC GRAPH THEORY; FLOCKING; MULTI VEHICLE SYSTEMS; WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 34250653622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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