Rendezvous of multiple mobile agents with preserved network connectivity

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 313-322

  Su, Housheng ^a,b,c   Wang, Xiaofan ^b   Chen, Guanrong ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Multi agent; Nonlinear system; Rendezvous; Virtual leader

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY PRESERVATION; COORDINATED MOTION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MAXIMUM OVERSHOOT; MULTI-AGENT; MULTIPLE MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SETTLING TIME; THEORETICAL RESULT; VIRTUAL LEADER;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77953293572     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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