Finite-time multi-agent deployment: A nonlinear PDE motion planning approach

Automatica

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2534-2542

  Meurer, Thomas ^a   Krstic, Miroslav ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed parameter systems; Flatness; Formation control; Motion planning; Multi agent deployment

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED-PARAMETER; FLATNESS; FORMAL POWER SERIES; FORMATION CONTROL; INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE; LEADER-FOLLOWER; MULTI-AGENT DEPLOYMENT; NON LINEAR PDE; PDE MODEL; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SUMMABILITY; TIME VARYING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053644963     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.08.045     Document Type: Article

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