Analysis of joint connectivity condition for multiagents with boundary constraints

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 437-444

  Chen, Zhiyong ^a   Zhang, Hai Tao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological systems; Collective motion; Flock; Multiagent systems (MASs).

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; COMMUNICATION RANGE; CONNECTIVITY PROPERTIES; ENGINEERING SIMULATION; FLOCK; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (MASS);

ADHESION; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84885765257     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2208952     Document Type: Article

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