Information flow and cooperative control of vehicle formations

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 115-120

  Fax, J Alexander ^a   Murray, Richard M ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Graph theory; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY;

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONTROL LOOP; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION FLOWS; POOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE TRAJECTORIES; SEPARATION PRINCIPLE; VEHICLE FORMATIONS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84945562600     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20020721-6-es-1901.00100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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