Flocking of multi-agents with a virtual leader part I: With a minority of informed agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2937-2942

  Su, Housheng ^a   Wang, Xiaofan ^a   Lin, Zongli ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Flocking; Informed agents; Nonlinear systems; Virtual leader

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

INFORMED AGENTS; VIRTUAL LEADER;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 39549123124     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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