Control of acyclic formations of mobile autonomous agents

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1187-1192

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; MOBILE AGENTS;

CONTROL LAWS; DISTANCE CONSTRAINTS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL LAW; EQUILIBRIUM MANIFOLDS; FINITE LIMITS; GRADIENT-LIKE; MOBILE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; TARGET POSITION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 62949240358     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2008.4738979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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