Gradient climbing in formation via extremum seeking and passivity-based coordination rules

Asian Journal of Control

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-211

  Biyik, Emrah ^a,b   Arcak, Murat ^a,b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Extremum seeking; Gradient climbing; Passivity

Indexed keywords

VEHICLES;

APPROXIMATE GRADIENT; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; EXTREMUM SEEKING; PASSIVITY; PASSIVITY BASED; SCALAR FIELDS; SENSOR POSITION; TIME SCALE SEPARATION;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 48049112137     PISSN: 15618625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asjc.19     Document Type: Article

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