A connection between formation infeasibility and velocity alignment in kinematic multi-agent systems

Automatica

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2648-2654

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

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autonomous systems; Decentralized control; Formation control; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; KINEMATICS; STATE SPACE METHODS; VECTORS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; NON-HOLONOMIC; STATE SPACES; STEADY STATES; VELOCITY VECTORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 52949083916     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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