A backstepping design for directed formation control of three-coleader agents in the plane

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 729-745

  Chen, Yang Yang ^a   Tian, Yu Ping ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Directed formation control; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

BACKSTEPPING DESIGN; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL LAWS; DIRECTED FORMATION CONTROL; DOUBLE INTEGRATOR; FORMATION CONTROL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTEGRATOR BACKSTEPPING; LASALLE'S INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; SIMULATION RESULT;

BACKSTEPPING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 67649235475     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1344     Document Type: Article

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