Controlling a triangular formation of mobile autonomous agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3603-3608

  Cao, M ^a   Morse, A S ^a   Yu, C ^b   Anderson, B D O ^b   Dasgupta, S ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INITIALLY COLLINEAR FORMATIONS; TRIANGULAR FORMATION;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 62749159032     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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