Sufficient conditions for the convergence of a class of nonlinear distributed consensus algorithms

Automatica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 625-629

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

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Cooperative control; Directed graphs; Distributed control; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DIRECTED GRAPHS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79952487208     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.01.042     Document Type: Article

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