Extended multi-agent consensus protocols for the generation of geometric patterns in the plane

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3850-3855

  Tsiotras, Panagiotis ^a   Reyes Castro, Luis Ignacio ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GEOMETRY;

COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL LAW; DISTRIBUTED SURVEILLANCE; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; NETWORKED AGENTS; RELATIVE POSITIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053162697     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2011.5990927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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