Formations of formations: Hierarchy and stabilit

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2992-2997

  Williams, Anca ^a,b   Glavaški, Sonja ^a   Samad, Tariq ^a  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; FORMATION FLYING;

ALGEBRA; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRAJECTORIES; VEHICLE TRANSMISSIONS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 8744318395     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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