Controllability of multi-agent systems with switching topology

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 421-426

  Ji, Zhijian ^a   Lin, Hai ^b   Lee, Tong Heng ^b  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Controllability; Graph theory; Multi agent systems; Switched systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLABILITY; GRAPH THEORY; MECHATRONICS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ROBOTICS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

DYNAMIC NETWORKS; FORMATION CONTROLS; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SWITCHED SYSTEMS; SWITCHING TOPOLOGIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 58049109677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMECH.2008.4681490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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