Paper Info
Title
Consensus of multi-agent systems under switching agent dynamics and jumping network topologies
Abstract
Consensus of multi-agent systems is an interesting research topic and has wide applications in science and engineering. The agents considered in most existing studies on consensus problem are time-invariant. However, in many cases, agent dynamics often show the characteristic of switching during the process of consensus. This paper considers consensus problem of general linear multi-agent system under both switching agent dynamics and jumping network topologies. Within the proposed multi-agent system, the agent dynamic switching is assumed to be deterministic, while the network topology jumping is considered respectively for two cases: deterministic jumping (Case 1) and Markov jumping (Case 2). By applying the dwell time and the average dwell time techniques, a sufficient consensus and an almost sure consensus conditions are provided for these two cases, respectively. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the theoretical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s11633-016-0960-z
International Journal of Automation and Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Multi-agent systems, consensus, switching agent dynamics, switching topologies, Markov process
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1476-8186
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen-Hong Yang100.34
Yang Song266.49
Min Zheng3343.26
Weiyan Hou442.43