Switching rules for decentralized control with simple control laws

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1485-1492

  Shucker, Brian ^a   Murphey, Todd ^a   Bennett, John K ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED (CO); CONTROL LAWS; FORMAL PROOFS; GENERAL (CO); NOVEL METHODS; PD CONTROLLING; SWITCHING RULES; VIRTUAL SPRING;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 46449094666     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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