A note on the deployment of kinematic agents by binary information

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2487-2492

  De Persis, Claudio ^a   Cao, Ming ^a   Ceragioli, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

BINARY INFORMATION; CONTINUOUS-TIME; CONTROL LAWS;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 84860650369     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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