Formation control of multi-agent systems with heterogeneous communication delays

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 627-636

  Liu, Cheng Lin ^a   Tian, Yu Ping ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Communication delay; Coordination control; Formation; Multi agent systems; Self delay

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DELAY; COORDINATION CONTROL; DELAY-DEPENDENT; FORMATION; FORMATION CONTROL; HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION; MATRIX THEORY; MOVING FORMATIONS; SECOND-ORDER DYNAMICS; SELF-DELAY; SIMULATION RESULT; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 67651211614     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720902755762     Document Type: Article

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