A general stability condition for multi-agent coordination by coupled estimation and control

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 723-728

  Yang, Peng ^a   Freeman, Randy A ^a   Lynch, Kevin M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MOTION CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; STABILIZERS (AGENTS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY; APPLIED (CO); COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CONTROL GAINS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION; FIRST ORDERS; FORMATION CONTROL; GENERAL (CO); GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; GLOBAL PROPERTIES; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; LOCAL MOTIONS; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; SENSOR INPUTS; STABILITY CONDITIONS; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 46449112690     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4283065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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