Bell-shaped potential functions for multi-agent formation control in cluttered environment

18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'10 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 142-147

  Hengster Movrić, Kristian ^a   Bogdan, Stjepan ^b   Draganjac, Ivica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL POTENTIALS; BELL-SHAPED FUNCTIONS; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; CONTROL SCHEMES; FORMATION CONTROL; FORMATION POTENTIAL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MULTI-AGENT; MULTIAGENT CONTROL; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; POTENTIAL GRADIENTS; REPULSIVE FORCES; SIMULATION RESULT; STABILITY PROPERTIES; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM;

BELLS; STABILITY;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 77957011807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2010.5547604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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