Necessary and sufficient conditions for containment control of networked multi-agent systems

Automatica

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1415-1422

  Liu, Huiyang ^a   Xie, Guangming ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Containment control; Cooperative control; Directed network topology; Multi agent systems; Sampled control

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONTAINMENT CONTROL; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONVEX HULL; DIRECTED NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FINAL STATE; GAIN PARAMETER; INITIAL VALUES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); SAMPLED-DATA; SAMPLING PERIOD; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; TOPOLOGY STRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84862860014     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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