Gibbs sampler-based coordination of autonomous swarms

DOI10.1016/J.AUTOMATICA.2006.03.006MaRDI QIDQ856527zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wei Xi, Xiaobo Tan, John S. Baras

Publication date 7 December 2006

Published in Automatica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2006.03.006

zbMATH Keywords

simulated annealingGibbs samplerpotential functionsmulti-vehicle coordinationautonomous swarms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Automated systems (robots, etc.) in control theory (93C85) Stochastic systems in control theory (general) (93E03)

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