Decentralized cohesive motion control of multi-agent formations

14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sandeep, Srikumar ^b   Fidan, Bariş ^a,c   Yu, Changbin ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI-AGENT FORMATIONS; PATH SMOOTHNESS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 35948938128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2006.328692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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