Decentralized feedback controllers for multi-agent teams in environments with obstacles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1936-1941

  Ayanian, Nora ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

DECENTRALIZED FEEDBACK; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; STATE INFORMATION;

AGENTS;

EID: 51649124073     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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