Distributed leader-follower flocking control

Asian Journal of Control

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 396-406

  Wang, Zongyao ^a   Gu, Dongbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flocking; Local sensors; Multirobot

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

FLOCKING; FLOCKING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS; HAMILTON FUNCTIONS; LASALLE'S INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE; LOCAL SENSORS; MULTIROBOTS; RELATIVE DISTANCES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 72449207020     PISSN: 15618625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asjc.117     Document Type: Article

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