Stability margin scaling laws for distributed formation control as a function of network structure

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 923-929

  Hao, He ^a   Barooah, Prabir ^a   Mehta, Prashant G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; formation control; mistuning; partial differential equation (PDE); stability margin

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC FORMULAE; CLOSED LOOP STABILITY; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; D-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED FORMATION CONTROL; FIXED NUMBERS; FORMATION CONTROL; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; MISTUNING; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL; STABILITY MARGIN; STABILITY MARGINS;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; SCALING LAWS; STABILITY;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 79953794028     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2103416     Document Type: Article

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