A graph-theoretic characterization of controllability for multi-agent systems

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4588-4593

  Ji, Meng ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controllability; Equitable partitions; Graph theory; Multi agent systems; Networked system

Indexed keywords

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; CONTROL LAWS; EQUITABLE PARTITIONS; IN ORDER; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS (MAS); MULTI AGENTS; NECESSARY CONDITIONS; NETWORKED SYSTEMS;

AGENTS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLABILITY; FISH; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; STABILIZERS (AGENTS); THEOREM PROVING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 46449135701     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4283010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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