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Title: Consensus seeking in multi-agent systems with an active leader and communication delays (English)
Author: Gao, Lixin
Author: Tang, Yutao
Author: Chen, Wenhai
Author: Zhang, Hui
Language: English
Journal: Kybernetika
ISSN: 0023-5954
Volume: 47
Issue: 5
Year: 2011
Pages: 773-789
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: In this paper, we consider a multi-agent consensus problem with an active leader and variable interconnection topology. The dynamics of the active leader is given in a general form of linear system. The switching interconnection topology with communication delay among the agents is taken into consideration. A neighbor-based estimator is designed for each agent to obtain the unmeasurable state variables of the dynamic leader, and then a distributed feedback control law is developed to achieve consensus. The feedback parameters are obtained by solving a Riccati equation. By constructing a common Lyapunov function, some sufficient conditions are established to guarantee that each agent can track the active leader by assumption that interconnection topology is undirected and connected. We also point out that some results can be generalized to a class of directed interaction topologies. Moreover, the input-to-state stability (ISS) is obtained for multi-agent system with variable interconnection topology and communication delays in a disturbed environment. (English)
Keyword: multi-agent system
Keyword: consensus
Keyword: leader-following
Keyword: time-delay
MSC: 62A10
MSC: 93E12
idZBL: Zbl 1236.93006
idMR: MR2850463
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Date available: 2011-11-10T15:44:48Z
Last updated: 2013-09-22
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/141691
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