Nonsmooth coordination and geometric optimization via distributed dynamical systems

SIAM Review

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-189

  Cortés, Jorge ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination and cooperative control; Disk covering problem; Distributed dynamical systems; Geometric optimization; Nonsmooth analysis; Sphere packing problem; Voronoi partitions

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION AND COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DISK-COVERING PROBLEM; DISTRIBUTED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GEOMETRIC OPTIMIZATION; NONSMOOTH ANALYSIS; SPHERE-PACKING PROBLEM; VORONOI PARTITIONS;

AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COST FUNCTIONS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MOBILE AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SPHERES; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 59749102603     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080737551     Document Type: Review

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