Structural controllability of multi-agent networks: Robustness against simultaneous failures

Automatica

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3149-3157

  Rahimian, Mohammad Amin ^a   Aghdam, Amir G ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Controllability; Graph theory; Multi agent networks

Indexed keywords

GRAPH-THEORETIC; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; INFORMATION FLOW GRAPHS; MULTIAGENT NETWORKS; MULTIPLE LEADERS; OVERALL NETWORKS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; STRUCTURAL CONTROLLABILITY;

DIRECTED GRAPHS; GRAPH THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONTROLLABILITY;

EID: 84885616228     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2013.06.023     Document Type: Article

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