Avoiding collisions in flocks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1238-1243

  Cucker, Felipe ^a   Dong, Jiu Gang ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b City University of Hong Kong Joint Advanced Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Convergence to consensus; Particle systems

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE TO CONSENSUS; INITIAL STATE; INTERACTING PARTICLES; MINIMAL DISTANCE; MODIFIED MODEL; PARTICLE SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE;

EID: 77952158023     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2042355     Document Type: Article

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