Potential fields for maintaining connectivity of mobile networks

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 812-816

  Zavlanos, Michael M ^a   Pappas, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic graphs; Graph connectivity; Laplacian matrix; Potential fields

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE EQUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DYNAMIC GRAPH; LAPLACIAN MATRIX; POTENTIAL FIELDS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34548161470     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.900642     Document Type: Article

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