A unified formation control scheme with a single or multiple leaders

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5412-5418

  Sorensen, Nathan ^a   Ren, Wei ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; SCALE (DEPOSITS); VEHICLES;

APPLIED (CO); ARBITRARY INFORMATION; ARBITRARY NUMBERS; BANDWIDTH LIMITATIONS; BREAKDOWN (BD); DISTRIBUTED FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; GROUP LEADERS; GROUP LEVEL; INFORMATION EXCHANGING; LARGE SCALES; LEADER FOLLOWER; MULTI ROBOTS; TIME-VARYING; TRAJECTORY INFORMATION;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 37049020670     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4283094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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