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In this work, we study the consensus problem in which legitimate agents send their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of an unknown subset of malicious or faulty agents. In contrast to former works, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Orhan Eren Akgün , Sarper Aydın , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

This paper addresses the distributed consensus problem for a linear multi-agent system with switching directed communication topologies. By appropriately introducing a linear transformation, the consensus problem is equivalently converted…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Guanghui Wen , Valery Ugrinovskii

The problem of consensus in the presence of misbehaving agents has increasingly attracted attention in the literature. Prior results have established algorithms and graph structures for multi-agent networks which guarantee the consensus of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-28 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

This article deals with the consensus problem involving agents with time-varying singularities in the dynamics or communication in undirected graph networks. Existing results provide control laws which guarantee asymptotic consensus. These…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury , Srikant Sukumar

In this short note, we recommend another approach to deal with the topic Consensus of Multi-agents, which was proposed in \cite{Chena}.

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Tianping Chen

In this chapter we look at one of the canonical driving examples for multi-agent systems: average consensus. In this scenario, a group of agents seek to agree on the average of their initial states. Depending on the particular application,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Cameron Nowzari , Jorge Cortes , George J. Pappas

This paper studies the consensus problem for multiagent systems with transmission constraints. A novel model of multiagent systems is proposed where the information transmissions between agents are disturbed by irregular distortions or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Xiaotian Wang , Housheng Su

This paper presented insights into the implementation of transactive multi-agent systems over flow networks where local resources are decentralized. Agents have local resource demand and supply, and are interconnected through a flow network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yijun Chen , Zeinab Salehi , Elizabeth L. Ratnam , Ian R. Petersen , Guodong Shi

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

Most previous studies on multi-agent reinforcement learning focus on deriving decentralized and cooperative policies to maximize a common reward and rarely consider the transferability of trained policies to new tasks. This prevents such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Heechang Ryu , Hayong Shin , Jinkyoo Park

In this work, the ability to distinguish digraphs from the output response of some observing agents in a multi-agent network under the agreement protocol has been studied. Given a fixed observation point, it is desired to find sufficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-01 M. Amin Rahimian , Amir Ajorlou , Amir G. Aghdam

This paper addresses the distributed consensus design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed communication graphs and external disturbances. Both the cases with strongly connected communication graphs and leader-follower…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan

A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

The non-consensus problems of high order linear time-invariant dynamical homogeneous multi-agent systems are concerned. Based on the conditions of consensus achievement, the mechanisms that lead to non-consensus motions are analyzed.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Ning Cai , Chun-Lin Deng , Qiu-Xuan Wu

This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems subject to different matching uncertainties for both the cases without and with a leader of bounded unknown control input. Due to the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Frank Lewis

This paper proposes two algorithms, namely "back-tracking" and "history following", to reach consensus in case of communication loss for a network of distributed agents with switching topologies. To reach consensus in distributed control,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Yanumula V. Karteek , Indrani Kar , Somanath Majhi

Consensusability is an important property for many multi-agent systems (MASs) as it implies the existence of networked controllers driving the states of MAS subsystems to the same value. Consensusability is of interest even when the MAS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Mustafa Sahin Turan , Liang Xu , Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate

This paper studies system stability and performance of multi-agent systems in the context of consensus problems over wireless multiple-access channels (MAC). We propose a consensus algorithm that exploits the broadcast property of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Fabio Molinari , Sławomir Stańczak , Jörg Raisch

This paper focuses on the convergence of infor- mation in distributed systems of agents communicating over a network. The information on which the convergence is sought is not represented by real numbers, rather by sets of real numbers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Adriano Fagiolini , Nevio Dubbini , Antonio Bicchi

In this paper we investigate the problem of the sudden disconnection of an edge in a discrete-time multi-agent consensus network. If the graph remains strongly connected, the multi-agent system still achieves consensus, but in general,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Gianfranco Parlangeli , Maria Elena Valcher