Stability analysis for multi-agent systems using the incidence matrix: Quantized communication and formation control

Automatica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 695-700

  Dimarogonas, Dimos V ^a   Johansson, Karl H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Algebraic graph theory; Formation control; Multi agent systems; Networked control; Quantized control

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; DISTANCE-BASED; FORMATION CONTROL; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; INCIDENCE MATRICES; MULTIAGENT CONTROL; NETWORKED CONTROLS; NULL SPACE; QUANTIZED CONTROL; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILIZING CONTROL LAW; TREE GRAPH;

ALGEBRA; COMMUNICATION; CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; GRAPH THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949289121     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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