Distributed control of multi-robot systems with global connectivity maintenance

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2321-2326

  Sabattini, Lorenzo ^a   Chopra, Nikhil ^b   Secchi, Cristian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL CONTROL; ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

CONTROL THEORY; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAINTAINABILITY; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84455179804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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