Time-Varying Formation for Second-Order Open Multi-Agent Systems With External Disturbances

Min Gong; Yuanqing Xia; Yuezu Lv

doi:10.1109/JAS.2025.125582

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Jun. 2026

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

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M. Gong, Y. Xia, and Y. Lv, “Time-varying formation for second-order open multi-agent systems with external disturbances,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1524–1526, Jun. 2026. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125582

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M. Gong, Y. Xia, and Y. Lv, “Time-varying formation for second-order open multi-agent systems with external disturbances,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1524–1526, Jun. 2026. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125582

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