Distributed formation control while preserving connectedness

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5962-5967

  Ji, Meng ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connected graphs; Formation control; Graph laplacian; Multi agent coordination

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONNECTED GRAPHS; DISTRIBUTED FORMATION CONTROL; GRAPH LAPLACIAN;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 37049017985     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.377314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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