Information flow and cooperative control of vehicle formations

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1465-1476

  Fax, J Alexander ^a   Murray, Richard M ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VEHICLES;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; FORMATION STABILITY; GRAPH LAPLACIAN MATRIX; MULTIVEHICLE CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644317383     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.834433     Document Type: Article

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