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GRASP Student Seminar Series: Spring 2006
February 1, 5:00 PM, 307 Levine Hall
Marilina
De Gennaro
"Preserving Connectivity of a Multi-agent
System"
Abstract: The connectivity of a multi
agent system is an important assumption for a lot of control strategies
for flocking, formation keeping, and generally for achieving the desired
goal. I will present an algorithm for connectivity preserving, in a
complete decentralized framework. Since the connectivity property of
the system is held by the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian
matrix, the proposed algorithm is an optimization algorithm that tries
to maximize this eigenvalue. Simulation results will be shown to test
the algorithm.
Biography: Marilina is a PhD student in Automatic
Control at the Università del Sannio, Benevento, Italy. She is
currently a visiting scholar in the GRASP Lab. Her research interests
include analysis and control of multi-agent systems, and aumomotive
control.
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