Sufficient conditions for connectivity maintenance and rendezvous in leader-follower networks

Automatica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-139

  Gustavi, Tove ^a   Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^b   Egerstedt, Magnus ^c   Hu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity graphs; Consensus; Multi agent networks

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTION FORCE; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONNECTIVITY GRAPH; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; DESTINATION POINTS; GLOBAL MISSIONS; LEADER-FOLLOWER; MULTIAGENT NETWORKS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 73049096074     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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