Paper Info
Title
Nonlinear Merging Consensus for Multi-Agent Systems on Directed and Weighted Signed Graph.
Abstract
This paper settles the nonlinear merging consensus for multi-agent systems on a directed and weighted signed network. A novel nonlinear merging control protocol is proposed to drive the states of all agents to arrive at the same state. To be consistent with the reality, the interactions among agents can be either cooperative or competitive and the information flow is considered to be directed. Particularly, the protocol can still ensure the states of all agents to reach an agreement, even though the corresponding directed network is not strongly connected. Besides, to guarantee the efficiency of multi-agent systems, the convergence rate of agents can be sped up by adjusting the parameter of the protocol. Finally, the theoretical analysis and simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of this protocol. The current results are instructive for us to comprehend and design an efficient consensus protocol within multi-agent systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2927734
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Protocols,Multi-agent systems,Merging,Topology,Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions,Network topology,Nickel,Nonlinear merging consensus,multi-agent systems,signed graph,weighted and directed network
Journal
8
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shasha Feng100.34
Zijian Chen200.34
Qunsheng Guan300.34
Chengyi Xia414920.94