Consensus tracking under directed interaction topologies: Algorithms and experiments

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 230-237

  Ren, Wei ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Cooperative control; Formation control; Multi vehicle systems

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED CONTROLS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; FORMATION CONTROL; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MULTI-VEHICLE SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOTS; REFERENCE STATE; SWITCHING INTERACTION TOPOLOGIES; TEAM MEMBERS; TIME VARYING; TRACKING ALGORITHM; TRACKING PROBLEM; VEHICLE INTERACTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 73249149052     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2015285     Document Type: Article

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