Interconnection topologies for multi-agent coordination under leader-follower framework

Automatica

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2857-2863

  Ji, Zhijian ^a   Wang, Zidong ^b   Lin, Hai ^c   Wang, Zhen ^a  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Controllability; Leader follower structure; Local interactions; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

EIGENVECTORS; FORMATION CONTROL; INTERCONNECTION GRAPHS; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; LEADER-FOLLOWER; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; MULTIPLE AGENTS; TOPOLOGY STRUCTURE;

CONTROLLABILITY; TOPOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449658852     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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