Closed-loop dynamics of cooperative vehicle formations with parallel estimators and communication

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1404-1414

  Smith, Roy S ^a   Hadaegh, Fred Y ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Decentralized control; Decentralized estimation; Formation control; Multi agent control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ESTIMATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE VEHICLE FORMATIONS; FORMATION CONTROL; MULTI-AGENT CONTROL; PARALLEL ESTIMATORS;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548244566     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.902735     Document Type: Article

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