Distributed cohesive motion control of flight vehicle formations

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5763-5772

  Bayezit, Ismail ^a   Fidan, Baris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; cohesive motion; cooperative control; formation control; persistent formations; rigid formations; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; TARGET TRACKING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COHESIVE MOTION; FORMATION CONTROL; RIGID FORMATIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAVS);

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 84880313305     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2235391     Document Type: Article

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