Control and information architectures for formations

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1127-1138

  Anderson, Brian D O ^a   Yu, Changbin ^a   Fidan, Bariş ^a   Hendrickx, Julien M ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL; GRAPH-THEORETIC; INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES; TECHNICAL TOOLS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77952889711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CACSD-CCA-ISIC.2006.4776802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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