Robust rendezvous of heterogeneous Euler-Lagrange systems on packet-switched networks;Robustes Rendezvous von heterogenen Euler-Lagrange Systemen mithilfe paketvermittelnder Netzwerke

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Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 184-191

  Münz, Ulrich ^a   Papachristodoulou, Antonis ^b   Allgöwer, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Delays; Euler Lagrange systems; Multi agent systems; Packet switched networks; Rendezvous

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955287810     PISSN: 01782312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/auto.2010.0833     Document Type: Article

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