Multi-agent coordination with cohesion, dispersion, and containment control

Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, ACC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4756-4761

  Chen, Fei ^a   Ren, Wei ^a   Lin, Zongli ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAINMENT CONTROL; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CONVEX HULL; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL LAW; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; SWARMING BEHAVIOR; TRACKING ERRORS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DISPERSIONS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 77957811327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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