Flocking in multi-agent systems with active virtual leader and time-varying delays coupling

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1014-1026

  Lu, Xiaoqing ^a   Austin, Francis ^b   Chen, Shihua ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Active virtual leader; Directed topology; Flocking; Multi agent systems; Pinning control; Time varying delays

Indexed keywords

TIME DELAY; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE VIRTUAL LEADER; CONTROL PROTOCOLS; DELAY COUPLING; DIRECTED TOPOLOGY; FLOCKING; PINNING CONTROL; PRACTICAL CONTROLS; TIME-VARYING DELAY; VIRTUAL LEADER; VIRTUAL-TIME;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956056940     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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