Bounded control of network connectivity in multi-agent systems

IET Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1330-1338

  Dimarogonas, D V ^a   Johansson, K H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED CONTROLS; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; CONTROL LAWS; DECENTRALISED; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL LAW; DYNAMIC GRAPH; FORMATION CONTROL; MULTIPLE MOBILE AGENTS; NAVIGATION FUNCTIONS; POTENTIAL FIELD; SENSING RADIUS; SENSOR LIMITATIONS;

CONTROL THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; MOBILE AGENTS; NAVIGATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955778594     PISSN: 17518644     EISSN: 17518652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2009.0229     Document Type: Article

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