Adaptive flocking with a virtual leader of multiple agents governed by nonlinear dynamics

Proceedings of the 29th Chinese Control Conference, CCC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5827-5832

  Su, Housheng ^a   Chen, Guanrong ^b   Wang, Xiaofan ^c   Lin, Zongli ^d  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive flocking; Distributed control; Multiple agents; Nonlinear dynamics; Virtual leader

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE FLOCKINGS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FLOCKING ALGORITHMS; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MULTIPLE AGENTS; PROXIMITY NETWORKS; VIRTUAL LEADER;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 84988292034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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