Time scales and stability in networked multi-robot systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3855-3862

  Schwager, Mac ^a   Michael, Nathan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Rus, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONVERGENCE RATES; COUPLED INTERACTION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; FEEDBACK GAIN; FIRST ORDER; FLOODING ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION FLOWS; LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NETWORKING PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE METRICES; PROPORTIONAL CONTROLLER; QUADROTORS; ROBOT DYNAMICS; STATE INFORMATION; TIME-SCALES;

DYNAMICS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84866291889     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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