Distributed observers design for leader-following control of multi-agent networks

Automatica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 846-850

  Hong, Yiguang ^a   Chen, Guanrong ^b   Bushnell, Linda ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c University of Washington ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Active leader; Common Lyapunov function; Distributed control; Distributed observer; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACTIVE LEADERS; COMMON LYAPUNOV FUNCTION; DISTRIBUTED OBSERVERS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 39449125065     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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