Analysis of coordination in multi-agent systems through partial difference equations. Part I: The Laplacian control

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 16, Issue , 2005, Pages 203-208

  Ferrari Trecate, Giancarlo ^a   Buffa, Annalisa ^b   Gati, Mehdi ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c RENAULT   (France)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Decentralized control; Formation control; Networked autonomous vehicles; Partial difference equations

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BASED REASONINGS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COLLECTIVE DYNAMICS; FORMATION CONTROL; LEADER-FOLLOWER; PARTIAL DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS (PDES); PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDES);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960707097     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20050703-6-cz-1902.02086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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