Decentralized cooperative control of heterogeneous vehicle groups

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 811-823

  Tanner, H G ^a   Christodoulakis, D K ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents and autonomous systems; Autonomous robots; Cooperative control

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBOTS; SYNCHRONIZATION; VELOCITY;

AERIAL VEHICLES; AGENTS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; COOPERATIVE CONTROL;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 35348874336     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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