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@article{JiFerrariEgerstedt_TAC08, abstract = {In this paper, the problem of driving a collection of mobile robots to a given target destination is studied. In particular, we are interested in achieving this transfer in an orderly manner so as to ensure that the agents remain in the convex polytope spanned by the leader-agents, while the remaining agents, only employ local interaction rules. To this aim we exploit the theory of partial difference equations and propose hybrid control schemes based on stop-go rules for the leader-agents. Non-Zenoness, liveness and convergence of the resulting system are also analyzed.}, author = {Ji, M. and Ferrari-Trecate, G. and Egerstedt, M. and Buffa, A.}, booktitle = {Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {3444700}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2008.930098}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4631516}, doi = {10.1109/TAC.2008.930098}, journal = {Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {consensus, containment\_control, mobile\_robots}, number = {8}, pages = {1972--1975}, posted-at = {2008-10-24 01:10:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Containment Control in Mobile Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2008.930098}, volume = {53}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - JiFerrariEgerstedt_TAC08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3444700 N2 - In this paper, the problem of driving a collection of mobile robots to a given target destination is studied. In particular, we are interested in achieving this transfer in an orderly manner so as to ensure that the agents remain in the convex polytope spanned by the leader-agents, while the remaining agents, only employ local interaction rules. To this aim we exploit the theory of partial difference equations and propose hybrid control schemes based on stop-go rules for the leader-agents. Non-Zenoness, liveness and convergence of the resulting system are also analyzed. IS - 8 JF - Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on EP - 1975 TI - Containment Control in Mobile Networks VL - 53 T2 - Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on SP - 1972 KW - consensus KW - containment_control KW - mobile_robots AU - Ji, M AU - Ferrari-Trecate, G AU - Egerstedt, M AU - Buffa, A PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2008.930098 ER -