A distributed deployment strategy for a network of cooperative autonomous vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 737-745

  Sharifi, Farid ^a   Chamseddine, Abbas ^a   Mahboubi, Hamid ^b   Zhang, Youmin ^a   Aghdam, Amir G ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; distributed strategy; multiagent systems.

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COVERAGE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED DEPLOYMENT; DISTRIBUTED STRATEGIES; OPERATION COST; WEIGHTED VORONOI DIAGRAM;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 85027949041     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2014.2341658     Document Type: Article

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