Decentralized flocking control with a minority of informed agents

Proceedings of the 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1851-1856

  La, Hung Manh ^a   Lim, Ronny Salim ^a   Sheng, Weihua ^a   Chen, Heping ^b  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Flocking control; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

FLOCKING CONTROL; FOOD SOURCES; GROUP-BASED; LOCAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE AGENTS; NATURAL PHENOMENA;

ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 80052208634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIEA.2011.5975893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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