Asymmetric decentralized flocks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2844-2853

  Tangerman, Folkert M ^a   Veerman, J J P ^b   Stošic, Borko D ^c  

^a Portland State University ^*

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agents and autonomous systems; stability of linear systems; traffic control

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; EXPONENTIAL RATES; INFORMATION FLOWS; LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT; OSCILLATORY MOTION; SAFE CONTROL; STEADY STATE; SYSTEM TRANSIENTS; THEORETICAL MINIMUM; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT ERRORS;

DYNAMICS; ERRORS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 84869162743     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2199150     Document Type: Article

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