Coordinated path-following in the presence of communication losses and time delays

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 234-265

  Ghabcheloo, R ^a   Aguiar, A P ^a   Pascoal, A ^a   Silvestre, C ^a   Kaminer, I ^b   Hespanha, J ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

^c Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Communication losses and time delays; Coordination control; Path following

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; GRAPH THEORY; TIME DELAY;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVS); COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; COMMUNICATION LOSS; COORDINATION CONTROL; COORDINATION SUBSYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL SCENARIO; PATH FOLLOWING; PROBLEM FORMULATION;

VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 60349131500     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060678993     Document Type: Article

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