Distributed containment control with multiple dynamic leaders for double-integrator dynamics using only position measurements

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1553-1559

  Li, Jianzhen ^a,b   Ren, Wei ^c   Xu, Shengyuan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Containment control; distributed control; double integrator dynamics; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CONTAINMENT CONTROL; CONVEX HULL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84861756708     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2174680     Document Type: Article

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