Inverse agreement protocols with application to distributed multi-agent dispersion

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 657-663

  Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Distributed multi agents systems; Swarm dispersion

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY;

CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEMS; CONTROL DESIGNS; CONTROL LAWS; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AGENTS SYSTEMS; LOWER BOUNDS; MINIMUM DISTANCES; MULTI AGENTS; SENSING RADIUS; SWARM DISPERSION; TEAM MEMBERS; WORKSPACE BOUNDARIES;

AGENTS;

EID: 63449119908     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2008.2011009     Document Type: Article

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