Distributed consensus on enclosing shapes and minimum time rendezvous

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4295-4300

  Notarstefano, Giuseppe ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS;

COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; RENDEZVOUS; ROBOTIC NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 39549084419     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.377264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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