A note on connectivity of multi-agent systems with proximity graphs and linear feedback protocol

Automatica

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1953-1956

  Sun, Zhendong ^a   Huang, Jie ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Graph connectivity; Linear feedback; Multi agent systems; Proximity graph

Indexed keywords

EDGE LENGTH; GRAPH CONNECTIVITY; GRAPH ORDER; LINEAR FEEDBACK; LYAPUNOV; MONOTONICITY; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NODE DEGREE; PROXIMITY GRAPH; PROXIMITY GRAPHS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

FEEDBACK;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 67649576337     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.03.027     Document Type: Article

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