A class of bounded distributed control strategies for connectivity preservation in multi-agent systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2828-2833

  Ajorlou, Amir ^a   Momeni, Ahmadreza ^a   Aghdam, Amir G ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; cooperative control; distributed control; graph connectivity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED CONTROLS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONNECTIVITY PRESERVATION; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DESIGN CRITERION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGY; EDGE ADDITION; GENERAL CLASS; GRAPH CONNECTIVITY; INFORMATION FLOW GRAPHS; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; STATIC INFORMATION; TECHNICAL NOTES;

CONTROL THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GRAPHIC METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 78650027524     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2072570     Document Type: Article

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