Cyclic directed formations of multi-agent systems

2001 European Control Conference, ECC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 539-544

  Tabuada, Paulo ^a   Pappas, George J ^b   Lima, Pedro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cyclic graphs; formations; Multi Agent systems

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED GRAPHS; MOBILE AGENTS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS;

ALGEBRAIC CONDITIONS; CYCLIC GRAPH; FORMATION GRAPHS; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; KINEMATIC EQUATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84947461246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2001.7075963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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