Merging globally rigid formations of mobile autonomous agents

This paper focuses on developing techniques and strategies for the analysis and design of sensor and network topologies required to merge globally rigid formations for cooperative tasks. Central to the development of these techniques and strategies is the use of tools from rigidity theory, and graph theory.

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