Graph theoretic methods in the stability of vehicle formations

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3729-3734

  Lafferriere, G ^a   Caughman, J ^a   Williams, A ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMMUNICATION GRAPHS;

ALGEBRA; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 8744258621     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2004.182867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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