Distributed multi-vehicle coordinated control via local information exchange

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 17, Issue 10-11, 2007, Pages 1002-1033

  Ren, Wei ^a   Atkins, Ella ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus protocols; Coordinated control; Graph theory; Multi vehicle systems

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; COORDINATED CONTROL; LOCAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE; MULTI VEHICLE SYSTEMS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 34250813905     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1147     Document Type: Article

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