Flocking while preserving network connectivity

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2919-2924

  Zavlanos, Michael M ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Pappas, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; MOBILE AGENTS; MOTION ESTIMATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED MOTION ALGORITHMS; SPARSE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 62749130828     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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