Coordination Variables and Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

Volumn 309, Issue , 2005, Pages 171-188

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^a   McLain, Timothy W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONSENSUS BUILDINGS; COORDINATION PROBLEMS; COORDINATION VARIABLES; FORMATION CONTROL PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE VEHICLE SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 84880029368     PISSN: 01708643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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