Generalization of linear cyclic pursuit with application to rendezvous of multiple autonomous agents

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1819-1824

  Sinha, Arpita ^a   Ghose, Debasish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

LINEAR CYCLIC; MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS AGENT;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 35148813325     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2006.883033     Document Type: Article

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