Finite-time formation control for multi-agent systems

Automatica

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2605-2611

  Xiao, Feng ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a   Chen, Jie ^b   Gao, Yanping ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Finite time consensus; Finite time formation; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FORMATIONS; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; DATA EXCHANGE; FINITE TIME; FINITE-TIME CONSENSUS; FINITE-TIME FORMATION; FORMATION CONTROL; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; LARGE POPULATION; LOCAL INFORMATION; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME INVARIANTS; TIME VARYING; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349981439     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.07.012     Document Type: Article

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