Flocking of multi-agent dynamical systems based on pseudo-leader mechanism

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-202

  Zhou, Jin ^a,b   Wu, Xiaoqun ^a   Yu, Wenwu ^c   Small, Michael ^b   Lu, Jun An ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flocking; Multi agent; Pseudo leader; Virtual leader

Indexed keywords

DESIRED POSITION; FLOCKING; MULTI-AGENT; MULTIPLE AGENTS; NEIGHBOR GRAPH; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PSEUDO-LEADER; VIRTUAL FORCES; VIRTUAL LEADER;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 82355190296     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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