Decentralized formation control with connectivity maintenance and collision avoidance under limited and intermittent sensing

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3201-3206

  Cheng, Teng Hu ^a   Kan, Zhen ^a   Rosenfeld, Joel A ^a   Dixon, Warren E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Multivehicle systems; Switched systems

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; MAINTENANCE;

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; DISCONNECTED NETWORKS; MULTI-VEHICLE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION FUNCTIONS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK MAINTENANCES; SWITCHED SYSTEM;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84905708794     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2014.6859177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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