On decentralized connectivity maintenance for mobile robotic systems

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 988-993

  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

GRAPH ALGORITHMS; MAINTENANCE; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION; GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY; INTER-AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84860653955     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6161067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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