Distributed consensus in multi-vehicle cooperative control: Theory and applications

Communications and Control Engineering

Volumn , Issue 9781848000148, 2008, Pages 1-315

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING;

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; MULTI-VEHICLES;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 85030956522     PISSN: 01785354     EISSN: 21977119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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