Consensus of information in distributed control of a diffusion process using centroidal voronoi tessellations

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1441-1446

  Chao, Haiyang ^a   Chen, Yangquan ^a   Ren, Wei ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Centroidal Voronoi tessellations; Consensus; Diffusion process; Distributed control; Mobile actuator and sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CHEMICAL NEUTRALIZERS; MESH SENSOR NETWORK;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 62749116496     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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