Solving the N-consensus problem: Combining clustering and synchronization

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 45, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 216-221

  Gering, Stefan ^a   Willert, Volker ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Consensus; Distributed control; Probabilistic models

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; STATE SYNCHRONIZATION; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84881001211     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20120914-2-US-4030.00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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