Connectivity preserving distributed swarm aggregation for multiple kinematic agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2913-2918

  Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS;

MULTIPLE KINEMATIC AGENTS; NONHOLONOMIC KINEMATIC AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 51649120674     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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