(Un)conditional consensus emergence under feedback controls
Abstract
We study the problem of consensus emergence in multi-agent systems via external feedback controllers. We consider a set of agents interacting with dynamics given by a Cucker-Smale type of model, and study its consensus stabilization by means of centralized and decentralized control configurations. We present a characterization of consensus emergence for systems with different feedback structures, such as leader-based configurations, perturbed information feedback, and feedback computed upon spatially confined information. We characterize consensus emergence for this latter design as a parameter-dependent transition regime between self-regulation and centralized feedback stabilization. Numerical experiments illustrate the different features of the proposed designs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.06100,
title = {(Un)conditional consensus emergence under feedback controls},
author = {Mattia Bongini and Massimo Fornasier and Dante Kalise},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06100},
year = {2015}
}