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In this note, we discuss the problem of consensus finding in communication networks of agents with dynamically switching topologies. In particular, we consider the case of directed networks with unbalanced matrices of communication rates.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Jan Haskovec

Classical approaches for asymptotic convergence to the global average in a distributed fashion typically assume timely and reliable exchange of information between neighboring components of a given multi-component system. These assumptions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we study the consensus problem of multiple agents on a kind of famous graph, Peterson graph. It is an undirected graph with 10 vertices and 15 edges. Each agent randomly walks on this graph and communicates with each other if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Hannah Arendt , Jorgensen Jost

In this paper, we consider the problem of containment control of multi-agent systems with multiple stationary leaders, interacting over a directed network. While, containment control refers to just ensuring that the follower agents reach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Sushobhan Chatterjee , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

This work deals with the output consensus problem for multiagent systems over balanced digraphs by passivity analysis. As the standard diffusive coupling structure only models the undirected interconnection, we propose a general approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Feng-Yu Yue , Daniel Zelazo

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

In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Takumi Namba

Consensus strategies find a variety of applications in distributed coordination and decision making in multi-agent systems. In particular, average consensus plays a key role in a number of applications and is closely associated with two…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Themistoklis Charalambous , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Multiagent systems consist of agents that locally exchange information through a physical network subject to a graph topology. Current control methods for networked multiagent systems assume the knowledge of graph topologies in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tansel Yucelen , John Daniel Peterson , Kevin L. Moore

In this paper, we propose a new and systematic design framework for output consensus in heterogeneous Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) general nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) subjected to directed communication topology. First, the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Dinh Hoa Nguyen

This paper proposes a decentralized design approach of consensus protocols of multi-agent systems via a directed-spanning-tree(DST)-based linear transformation and the corresponding minimal communication links. First, the consensus problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Yangzhou Chen , Lanhao Zhao

This paper studies distributed resilient consensus problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems susceptible to deception attacks. The attacks invade both sensor and actuator channels of each agent. A specific class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mengze Yu , Wei Wang , Jiaqi Yan

This technical note studies the distributed average tracking problem for multiple time-varying signals with general linear dynamics, whose reference inputs are nonzero and not available to any agent in the network. In distributed fashion, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Yu Zhao , Zhisheng Duan , Zhongkui Li

The distributed coordination problem of multi-agent systems is addressed in this paper under the assumption of intermittent communication between agents in the presence of time-varying communication delays. Specifically, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

This paper considers the cooperative output regulation problem for linear multi-agent systems with a directed communication graph, heterogeneous linear subsystems, and an exosystem whose output is available to only a subset of subsystems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-26 Zhongkui Li , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Zhengtao Ding

In this paper, we consider a coordination problem for a class of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with a prescribed input-output behavior which was represented by another input-driven system. In contrast to most existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Yutao Tang

This paper proposes a new approach to analyze and design distributed robust consensus control protocols for general linear leaderless multi-agent systems (MASs) in presence of relative-state constraints or uncertainties. First, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Dinh Hoa Nguyen , Tatsuo Narikiyo , Michihiro Kawanishi

A consensus system is a linear multi-agent system in which agents communicate to reach a so-called consensus state, defined as the average of the initial states of the agents. Consider a more generalized situation in which each agent is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

This paper investigates the consensus problem for nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent systems with limited communication data rate. Each agent is modeled by a higher-order strict-feedback continuous-time system with unknown nonlinearities…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie

This paper revisits the problem of multi-agent consensus from a graph signal processing perspective. Describing a consensus protocol as a graph spectrum filter, we present an effective new approach to the analysis and design of consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jingwen Yi , Li Chai , Jingxin Zhang