Distributed leader-follower flocking control for multi-agent dynamical systems with time-varying velocities

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 543-552

  Yu, Wenwu ^a,b   Chen, Guanrong ^b   Cao, Ming ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algebraic graph theory; Collective potential function; Flocking algorithm; Multi agent dynamical system; Nonsmooth analysis; Pinning feedback; Velocity consensus

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; FLOCKING ALGORITHMS; MULTI-AGENT; NONSMOOTH ANALYSIS; PINNING FEEDBACK; POTENTIAL FUNCTION;

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; NAVIGATION; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VELOCITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956395472     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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