Multi-agent based federated control of a class of nonlinear systems

Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications and Algorithms

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 573-588

  Dong, Qing ^a   Biswas, Saroj ^b   Bai, Li ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Federated systems; Large scale systems; Multi agent control; Nonlinear systems; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961079197     PISSN: 14928760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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