Leader-following control for multiple inertial agents

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 925-942

  Chen, Gang ^a   Lewis, Frank L ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

consensus; graph theory; leader; multiple agents; time delays

Indexed keywords

ALLOWABLE DELAY; COMMUNICATION DELAYS; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS SCHEMES; CONTROL GAINS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SCHEMES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER; FOLLOWING CONTROL; INERTIAL AGENTS; LEADER; LEADER-FOLLOWER; MULTIPLE AGENTS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SECOND ORDERS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLERS; TIME DELAY;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 79955064237     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1642     Document Type: Article

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