Distributed coordinated tracking with a dynamic leader for multiple euler-lagrange systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1415-1421

  Mei, Jie ^a   Ren, Wei ^b   Ma, Guangfu ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; coordinated tracking; distributed control; Euler Lagrange system; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL LAW; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COORDINATED TRACKING; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; EULER-LAGRANGE SYSTEMS; GENERALIZED COORDINATES; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; REVOLUTE JOINTS; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME VARYING; TRACKING PROBLEM; TWO-LINK;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EULER EQUATIONS; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958295941     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2109437     Document Type: Article

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