On the control of a flock by a leader

DOI10.1134/S0081543810010050MaRDI QIDQ600711zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Roger W. Brockett

Publication date 1 November 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543810010050

zbMATH Keywords

movement of flocks, virtual lattice model, controllability of nonlinear replicated systems, stabilization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in control (37N35) Decentralized systems (93A14) Controllability (93B05) Control/observation systems governed by partial differential equations (93C20) Adaptive or robust stabilization (93D21)

Review text

The control of a set of identical units by a leader is investigated. It is show that for such systems nonlinearity play a critical role. A new method for checking of the controllability of the systems is proposed. The stabilization of the systems is also analyzed.

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