Merging multiple formations: A meta-formation prospective

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4657-4663

  Yu, Changbin ^a   Banş, Fidan ^d   Hendrickx, Julien M ^b,c   Anderson, Brian D O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c FNRS

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; METADATA; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

METAVERTICES; MULTIPLE FORMATIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 39649110823     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.377618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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