Virtual neighbor based connectivity preserving of multi-agent systems with bounded control inputs in the presence of unreliable communication links

Automatica

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1261-1267

  Fan, Yuan ^a   Liu, Lu ^b   Feng, Gang ^b   Song, Cheng ^c   Wang, Yong ^d  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Bounded control input; Communication failure; Connectivity control; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED CONTROLS; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONSTRAINT FUNCTIONS; LIMITED COMMUNICATION RANGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PROXIMITY GRAPHS;

CONTROL THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84876684445     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2013.02.030     Document Type: Article

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