Control of a three-coleader formation in the plane

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 56, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 573-578

  Anderson, Brian D O ^a   Yu, Changbin ^a   Dasgupta, Soura ^b   Stephen Morse, A ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Formation control; Multiple agent control

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC ORDERING; FINITE DISTANCE; FORMATION CONTROL; THREE-COLEADER FORMATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34447573950     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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