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This article provides an introduction to event-triggered coordination for multi-agent average consensus. We provide a comprehensive account of the motivations behind the use of event-triggered strategies for consensus, the methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Cameron Nowzari , Eloy Garcia , Jorge Cortes

We propose an algorithm for average consensus over a directed graph which is both fully asynchronous and robust to unreliable communications. We show its convergence to the average, while allowing for slowly growing but potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Alex Olshevsky , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Artin Spiridonoff

Average consensus algorithms compute the global average of sensor data in a distributed fashion using local sensor nodes. Simple execution, decentralized philosophy make these algorithms suitable for WSN scenarios. Most of the researchers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Y. N. Singh

This paper proposes a novel distributed event-triggered algorithmic solution to the multi-agent average consensus problem for networks whose communication topology is described by weight-balanced, strongly connected digraphs. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Cameron Nowzari , Jorge Cortes

In multi-agent systems, strong connectivity of the communication network is often crucial for establishing consensus protocols, which underpin numerous applications in decision-making and distributed optimization. However, this connectivity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Guilherme Ramos , Diogo Poças , Sérgio Pequito

In this paper, we study the consensus problem for networked dynamic systems with arbitrary initial states, and present some structural characterization and direct construction of consensus functions. For the consensus problem under similar…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Long Wang , Hong Shi , Feng Xiao

In this paper, the fast consensus problem of high-order multi-agent systems under undirected topologies is considered. The direct link between the consensus convergence rate and the control gains is established. An accelerated consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Jiahao Dai , Jing-Wen Yi , Li Chai

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

We consider the problems of reaching average consensus and solving consensus-based optimization over unreliable communication networks wherein packets may be dropped accidentally during transmission. Existing work either assumes that the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lili Su

We consider the global consensus problem for multi-agent systems with input saturation over digraphs. Under a mild connectivity condition that the underlying digraph has a directed spanning tree, we use Lyapunov methods to show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

This paper studies an optimal consensus problem for a group of heterogeneous high-order agents with unknown control directions. Compared with existing consensus results, the consensus point is further required to an optimal solution to some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Yutao Tang

This paper considers the consensus problem for a network of nodes with random interactions and sampled-data control actions. We first show that consensus in expectation, in mean square, and almost surely are equivalent for a general random…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Junfeng Wu , Ziyang Meng , Tao Yang , Guodong Shi , Karl H. Johansson

In this study, we analyzed the problem of accelerating the linear average consensus algorithm for complex networks. We propose a data-driven approach to tuning the weights of temporal (i.e., time-varying) networks using deep learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Masako Kishida , Masaki Ogura , Yuichi Yoshida , Tadashi Wadayama

This note considers the constrained H-infinity consensus of multi-agent networks with nonidentical constraint sets. An improved distributed algorithm is adopted and a nonlinear controlled output function is defined to evaluate the effect of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Lipo Mo , Yingmin Jia , Yongguang Yu

We study the problem of distributed consensus in networks where the local agents have high-order ($n\ge 3$) integrator dynamics, and where all feedback is localized in that each agent has a bounded number of neighbors. We prove that no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Emma Tegling , Bassam Bamieh , Henrik Sandberg

In this work, we consider the consensus problem in which legitimate agents share their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of malicious or faulty agents. Different from the previous works, we characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Sarper Aydın , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

In this paper, we discuss pinning consensus in networks of multiagents via impulsive controllers. In particular, we consider the case of using only one impulsive controller. We provide a sufficient condition to pin the network to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Bo Liu , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

Nonlinear networked systems are of interest in several areas of research, such as multi-agent systems and social networks. In this paper, we examine the controllability of several classes of nonlinear networked dynamics on which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Siavash Alemzadeh , Mehran Mesbahi

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

In this paper, cluster consensus of multi-agent systems is studied via inter-cluster nonidentical inputs. Here, we consider general graph topologies, which might be time-varying. The cluster consensus is defined by two aspects: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Yujuan Han , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen