Flocking in Fixed and Switching Networks

By Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie, George Pappas. 2007

1,485 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Wei Ren
2. Guanrong Chen
3. Wenwu Yu
4. Yongcan Cao
5. Z. Duan
6. Zhongkui Li
7. Francesco Bullo
8. Guanghui Wen

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Wei Ren
2. Yongcan Cao
3. Guanrong Chen
4. Francesco Bullo
5. Long Wang
6. Zhongkui Li
7. Wenwu Yu
8. Housheng Su

Citations in the corpus

• On consensus in multi-agent systems with linear high-order agents (2008, background): “For a nice overview of recent results on the topic, see Ren et al. (2007); Olfati-Saber et al. (2007); Tanner et al. (2007) and the references therein.”
• Motion Coordination with Distributed Information (2007, positive): “Specifically, for groups of two or three agents, minimizers of Hcohe,G are configurations in which the distances between all neighboring agents are within the interval [R∗, R � ∗]. This objective function and its variations, which are used in [19] and [20] for the complete graph and in [ 16 ] for th”
• Formation control of VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with communication delays (2011, background): “…Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, P7B 5E1 a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 20 August 2010 Received in revised form 21 April 2011 Accepted 6 May 2011 Available online 21 September 2011 Keywords: Formation control VTOL aircraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communication…”
• On H ∞ and H 2 performance regions of multi-agent systems ✩ (2011, methodology): “Flocking algorithms were investigated in Olfati-Saber (2006), Su, Wang, and Lin (2009) and Tanner, Jadbabaie, and Pappas (2007) for a group of autonomous agents.”
• Closed-Loop Dynamics of Cooperative Vehicle Formations With Parallel Estimators and Communication (2007, background): “A wide variety of performance requirements can be considered, from collective group behaviors (see, for example, [1]–[3]), to cooperative task allocation and path planning (see, for example, [4]–[6]), to precisely controlled coordination [7].”
• Distributed nonlinear control algorithms for network consensus (2008, background): “For details, see Chellaboina, Haddad, Hui, and Ramakrishnan (2006). The results of this section provide a generalization to Theorems 4 and 5 of Olfati-Saber and Murray (2004) which establish information consensus protocols for the special structure φij(xi, xj) = aij(xi − xj), i, j = 1, .”
• Decentralized Control of Connectivity for Multi-Agent Systems (2006, background): “Moreover the strength of the connection decreases smoothly with distance (see [6], [11], [16]).”
• Robust Consensus Controller Design for Nonlinear Relative Degree Two Multi-Agent Systems With Communication Constraints (2011, neutral): “[ 10 ] Y. I. Neimark, “Stability of Linearized Systems,” (in Russian)”
• Formation control: a review and a new consideration (2005, background): “A similar ideal was presented in [38], [39], where the shape of the formation is expressed in shape coordinates.”
• Distributed Coordinated Tracking With Reduced Interaction via a Variable Structure Approach (2012, methodology): “We use differential inclusions [20], [21] and nonsmooth analysis [22], [23] to analyze the stability of (1) using (6).”
• Flocking for multi-agent dynamic systems: algorithms and theory (2006, background): “A number of recent papers on flocking/swarming, [17, 50, 11], make a set of assumptions that lead to algorithms with some (or all) of the following properties: a) The algorithms are centralized and require that each agent interacts with every other agent.”
• Collective rotating motions of second-order multi-agent systems in three-dimensional space (2011, methodology): “investigated a method for decentralized stabilization of vehicle formations, while, in [16], Tanner et al.”
• Distributed leader-follower flocking control for multi-agent dynamical systems with time-varying velocities (2010, methodology): “Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal.”
• Distributed Coordination of Networked Fractional-Order Systems (2010, background): “Because many vehicles are modeled by double-integrator dynamics, consensus algorithms for double-integrator dynamics are studied in [5]–[10], to name a few.”
• Hybrid Control for Connectivity Preserving Flocking (2009, background): “Existing results on distributed consensus and flocking algorithms critically rely on maintaining a connected communication network among the agents, either for all time (as in [1], [2], [3]) or over sequences of bounded time intervals (as in [4], [5], [6]).”