Persistent formation control of multi-robot networks

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 471-476

  Smith, Brian S ^a   Wang, Jiuguang ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING;

FORMATION CONTROL; MULTI-ROBOT NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 62949221904     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2008.4739157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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