Hybrid control for connectivity preserving flocking

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2869-2875

  Zavlanos, Michael M ^a   Tanner, Herbert G ^b   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Pappas, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic graph theory; Cooperative control; Hybrid systems; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COMMUNICATION LINKS; CONTINUOUS TIME; DWELL TIME; GRAPH LAPLACIAN; HYBRID CONTROLS; MOTION CONTROLLER; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK LINKS; NETWORK SWITCHES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; QUADRATIC FORM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNICAL NOTES; TOPOLOGY CONTROL; TOPOLOGY CONTROL PROTOCOLS; VELOCITY VECTORS;

ALGEBRA; CONTROLLERS; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GRAPH THEORY; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NUMBER THEORY; TIME SWITCHES; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 72349098290     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2009.2033750     Document Type: Article

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