Paper Info
Title
H<sub>∞</sub> Consensus for Multiagent-Based Supply Chain Systems Under Switching Topology and Uncertain Demands
Abstract
Supply chain systems are network systems with several subchains each of which consists of facilities and distribution entities (suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers), and thus such systems can be viewed as multiagent systems. Consensus or coordination of multiple subchains is crucial for a stable market supply, especially in the case of some subchains suffering from production interruption, or losing connection with others, which become isolated subchains in some time period due to irresistible reasons. Once some unspecified isolated subchains appear, the topology structure of the system will be changed, and thus the multiagent-based supply chain system can be modeled as a switched system. This paper aims to investigate the problem of H <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">∞</sub> consensus for multiagent-based supply chain systems under switching topology and uncertain demands. To achieve the consensus of the system, switching controller is designed in which both production rate and distributed consensus protocol are considered. Sufficient conditions are given such that the whole system reaches consensus and desirable attenuation of bullwhip effect with an average dwell time approach, which allows some subchains to be isolated in some time periods. Finally, a simulation example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TSMC.2018.2884510
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Consensus,multiagent,supply chain,switching topology
Journal
50
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
2168-2216
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qing-Kui Li101.01
Hai Lin2120789.77
Xi Tan300.34
Sheng-Li Du4709.17