A leader-based containment control strategy for multiple unicycles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5968-5973

  Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus ^b   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAINMENT VESSELS; INTEGRATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONVEX HULL; LEADER-BASED CONTAINMENT CONTROL STRATEGY; MULTIPLE UNICYCLES; SINGLE INTEGRATORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 37049036851     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.376700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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