A Study of Synchronization and Group Cooperation Using Partial Contraction Theory

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

Volumn 309, Issue , 2005, Pages 207-228

  Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; COLONIES OF BACTERIA; CONTINUOUS-TIME; CONTRACTION THEORY; DISCRETE-TIME MODEL; RECENT RESEARCHES; VELOCITY-MATCHING;

ANIMATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

GROUP THEORY;

EID: 84880007812     PISSN: 01708643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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