Control of minimally persistent formations in the plane

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 206-233

  Yu, Changbin ^a   Anderson, Brian D O ^a   Dasgupta, Soura ^b   Fidan, Bariş ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinated motion; Directed formations; Distributed control; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COORDINATED MOTION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; LEADING PRINCIPAL MINORS; NONLINEAR CONTROL LAWS; STABILIZING CONTROL LAW; SUBMATRIX;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 60349124972     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060678592     Document Type: Article

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