Algorithms and experiments on flocking of multiagents in a bounded space

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1544-1549

  Chen, Zhiyong ^a   Zhang, Hai Tao ^b   Fan, Ming Can ^b   Wang, Dan ^c   Li, Dinggen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collective motion; consensus; cooperative control; multiagent systems; nonholonomic vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; CONSENSUS; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NONHOLONOMIC VEHICLES; THEORETICAL DESIGN;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84903265753     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2013.2279166     Document Type: Article

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