Tracking control for groups of mobile agents

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3265-3270

  Shi, Hong ^a   Wang, Long ^a   Chu, Tianguang ^a   Xu, Minjie ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AGENTS; MOBILE AGENTS; SPEED;

CENTER OF MASS (COM); CONTROL LAWS; CONVERGENCE RATES; FLOCKING MOTION; REFERENCE SIGNAL (RS); STABLE FLOCKING; STATE INFORMATION; TIME-VARYING; TRACKING CONTROLS; VIRTUAL LEADER (VL);

STABILIZERS (AGENTS);

EID: 46449120412     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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