Flocking of multi-agents with a virtual leader

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 293-307

  Su, Housheng ^a   Wang, Xiaofan ^a   Lin, Zongli ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Flocking; Informed agents; Nonlinear systems; Virtual leader

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

ASYMPTOTIC TRACKING; AUTOMATIC CONTROLS; CENTER OF MASS; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; CONVERGENT RATES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FLOCKING; FLOCKING ALGORITHMS; INFORMED AGENTS; MULTI AGENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SMALL GROUPS; VIRTUAL LEADER;

AGENTS;

EID: 61349202353     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2008.2010897     Document Type: Article

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