Distributed discrete-time coordinated tracking with a time-varying reference state and limited communication

Automatica

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1299-1305

  Cao, Yongcan ^a   Ren, Wei ^a   Li, Yan ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Coordinated tracking; Discrete time consensus; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; CONTROL GAINS; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; COORDINATED TRACKING; DISCRETE-TIME CONSENSUS; LIMITED COMMUNICATIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; QUANTITATIVE BOUNDS; REFERENCE STATE; SAMPLING PERIODS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TEAM MEMBERS; TIME-VARYING; TRACKING ERRORS; TRACKING PROBLEMS;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; ERRORS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 65049083083     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.01.018     Document Type: Article

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