A general alignment repulsion algorithm for flocking of multi-agent systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 430-435

  Zhang, Hai Tao ^a   Zhai, Chao ^a   Chen, Zhiyong ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological systems; collective motion; flock; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VELOCITY; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; COLLECTIVE MOTION; FLOCK; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE AGENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TRAFFIC JAMS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951643249     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2089652     Document Type: Article

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