Unbiased Kalman Consensus algorithm

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 298-311

  Alighanbari, Mehdi ^a,b   How, Jonathan P ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED PLANNING; KALMAN FILTERING; NETWORK STRUCTURES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STRONGLY CONNECTED;

CONTROL THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 52949134785     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.34226     Document Type: Article

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