A geometric approach to dynamically feasible, real-time formation control

Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Maithripala, D H A ^a   Maithripala, D H S ^b   Jayasuriya, S ^c  

^a Siemens Industry Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomous control; constrained dynamics; distributed control; dynamic feasibility; formation keeping; formation reconfiguration; multi agent systems; radar deception; real time trajectory generation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; CONSTRAINED DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FORMATION KEEPING; FORMATION RECONFIGURATION; RADAR DECEPTION; REAL-TIME TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOTION PLANNING; RADAR; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79952591953     PISSN: 00220434     EISSN: 15289028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4003209     Document Type: Article

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