Flocking of multi-agents with nonlinear inner-coupling functions

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-264

  Yang, Zhengquan ^a   Zhang, Qing ^a   Chen, Zengqiang ^b  

^a CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Control law; Flocking; Multi agents; Nonlinear inner coupling functions

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; COUPLING FUNCTIONS; EXTERNAL SIGNALS; MULTI AGENT; STATE INFORMATION; VIRTUAL LEADER;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 77953360762     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-009-9593-x     Document Type: Article

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