Control of distributed stochastic systems - Introduction, problems, and approaches

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 44, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 4446-4452

  Van Schuppen, Jan H ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control with communication; Coordination control; Coordination of multiple vehicle systems (IFAC list); Decentralized control; Distributed control; Distributed control and estimation; Hierarchical control; Stochastic control

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COORDINATION CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; MULTIPLE VEHICLE SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84866758526     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.01535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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