Cooperative output regulation of linear multi-agent systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1062-1066

  Su, Youfeng ^a   Huang, Jie ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; linear systems; multi agent systems; networked systems; output regulation

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SCHEMES; LEADER FOLLOWING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NETWORKED SYSTEMS; OUTPUT REGULATION; TECHNICAL NOTES;

LINEAR SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBSERVABILITY;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84859727905     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2169618     Document Type: Article

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