Formation Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicle Systems

1 Formation Kinematics

This chapter introduces the notation to be used in the book, as well as the subject of vectorial kinematics, which is frequently used to derive equations of motion.

1.1 Notation

	tends (or converges) to
	implies
	identically equals (or equal)
	defined as
	much smaller than
	much greater than
	for all
	(if) there exists
	belongs to
	does not belong to
	a strict subset of
	a subset of
	intersection ...