Target containment control of multi-agent systems with random switching interconnection topologies

Automatica

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 879-885

  Lou, Youcheng ^a   Hong, Yiguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Containment control; Markov chain; Multi agent systems; Multiple leaders; Random switching topologies

Indexed keywords

CONTAINMENT CONTROL; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTROL PROBLEMS; CONVEX ANALYSIS; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); MULTIPLE LEADERS; RANDOM SWITCHING; SECOND ORDERS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84859744378     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2012.02.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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