Morse theory and formation control

2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 656-661

  Anderson, Brian D O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

autonomous formations; Formation control; Morse Theory; shape control

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FORMATIONS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL LAW; ERROR FUNCTION; FORMATION CONTROL; MORSE THE-ORY; RIGID FORMATIONS; SADDLE POINT; SHAPE CONTROL; STEEPEST DESCENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; TOPOLOGY;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 80052349643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2011.5983133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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