]> 2026-07-09T19:32:55+00:00 Graph Laplacians and Stabilization of Vehicle Formations 0 en Control of vehicle formations has emerged as a topic of significant interest to the controls community. In this paper, we merge tools from graph theory and control theory to derive stability criteria for formation stabilization. The interconnection between vehicles (i.e., which vehicles are sensed by other vehicles) is modeled as a graph, and the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of the graph are used in stating a Nyquist-like stability criterion for vehicle formations. The location of the Laplacian eigenvalues can be correlated to the graph structure, and therefore used to identify desirable and undesirable formation interconnection topologies. J. Alexander Fax and Richard M. Murray 2001g 2002 IFAC World Congress fm01-cds Preprint 2016-05-15T06:19:15Z 2457523.7633681 Graph Laplacians and Stabilization of Vehicle Formations Title 102 en Title