Consensus of information under dynamically changing interaction topologies

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 4939-4944

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTION GRAPHS; INTERACTION TOPOLOGY; SENSING LINKS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 8744245199     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2004.249096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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