A class of bounded distributed controllers for connectivity preservation of unicycles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3072-3077

  Ajorlou, Amir ^a   Aghdam, Amir G ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW GRAPHS;

BOUNDED CONTROLS; CONNECTIVITY PRESERVATION; CONTROL SCHEMES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SCHEMES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; STATIC INFORMATION; UNDERLYING NETWORKS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79953129847     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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