Graph laplacians and stabilization of vehicle formations

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-60

  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; Stability criteria; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL THEORY; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VEHICLES;

EIGENVALUES; GRAPH LAPLACIANS; GRAPH STRUCTURES; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; LAPLACIAN EIGENVALUES; LAPLACIAN MATRICES; VEHICLE FORMATIONS;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

EID: 84945567490     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20020721-6-es-1901.00090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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