On synchronous robotic networks - Part I: Models, tasks, and complexity

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2199-2213

  Martínez, Sonia ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^b   Cortés, Jorge ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity measures; Cooperative control; Coordination tasks; Distributed algorithms; Formal models; Robotic networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTROL THEORY; MOTION CONTROL; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

COMPLEXITY MEASURES; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; COORDINATION TASKS; FORMAL MODELS; ROBOTIC NETWORKS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 38149081166     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.908301     Document Type: Article

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