Collision free coordination of autonomous multiagent systems

2007 European Control Conference, ECC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 900-907

  Yu, Changbin ^a   Fidan, Baris ^a   Shames, Iman ^a   Sandeep, Srikumar ^b   Anderson, Brian D O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Collision Avoidance; Formation Control; Hierarchical control; Multiagent System

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GRAPH THEORY;

COLLISION-FREE COORDINATION; FORMATION CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84927739733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2007.7068971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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