Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems Applications to Autonomous Vehicles /

• Main Author: Qu, Zhihua (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Control.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Whether providing automated passenger transport systems, exploring the hostile depths of the ocean or assisting soldiers in battle, autonomous vehicle systems are becoming an important fact of modern life. Distributed sensing and communication networks allow neighboring vehicles to share information...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries on Systems Theory
• Control of Non-holonomic Systems
• Matrix Theory for Cooperative Systems
• Cooperative Control of Linear Systems
• Cooperative Control of Non-linear Systems.