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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

In this paper, the problem of event-triggered consensus for linear continuous-time multi-agent systems is investigated. A new event-triggered consensus protocol based on a predictor is proposed to achieve consensus without continuous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Jian Sun , Lihua Dou , Jie Chen

In this paper, we consider the second-order consensus problem for networked mechanical systems subjected to nonuniform communication delays, and the mechanical systems are assumed to interact on a general directed topology. We propose an…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Hanlei Wang , Long Cheng

We derive fundamental performance limitations for intrinsic average consensus problems in open multi-agent systems, which are systems subject to frequent arrivals and departures of agents. Each agent holds a value, and the objective of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Julien M. Hendrickx

The event-triggered consensus problem of first-order multi-agent systems under directed topology is investigated. The event judgements are only implemented at periodic time instants. Under the designed consensus algorithm, the sampling…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Kaien Liu , Zhijian Ji , Xianfu Zhang

This paper addresses the distributed prescribed-time leader-following consensus problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with perturbed nonlinear agents dynamics and where the topology of the network contains a directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 J. Armando Colunga , Héctor M. Becerra , Carlos R. Vázquez , David Gómez-Gutiérrez

This paper studies consensus problems for multi-agent systems defined on directed graphs where the consensus dynamics involves nonlinear and discontinuous functions. Sufficient conditions, involving the nonlinear functions and the topology…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-16 J. Wei , A. R. F. Everts , M. K. Camlibel , A. J. van der Schaft

We derive fundamental limitations on the performances of intrinsic averaging algorithms in open multi-agent systems, which are systems subject to random arrivals and departures of agents. Each agent holds a value, and their goal is to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Julien M. Hendrickx

In this paper we propose a novel consensus protocol for discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS), which solves the dynamic consensus problem on the max value, i.e., the dynamic max-consensus problem. In the dynamic max-consensus problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Alessandro Giua

This paper studies deterministic consensus networks with discrete-time dynamics under persistent flows and non-reciprocal agent interactions. An arc describing the interaction strength between two agents is said to be persistent if its…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Weiguo Xia , Guodong Shi , Ziyang Meng , Ming Cao , Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tansel Yucelen , Magnus Egerstedt

In this paper we propose a novel method to establish stability and, in addition, convergence to a consensus state for a class of discrete-time Multi-Agent System (MAS) evolving according to nonlinear heterogeneous local interaction rules…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Alessandro Giua

We consider the distributed leader-follower consensus problem with event-triggered communications. The system under consideration is a non-linear input-affine multi agent system. The agents are assumed to have identical dynamics structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Mathieu Marchand , Vincent Andrieu , Sylvain Bertrand , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

Several algorithms in prior literature have been proposed which guarantee consensus of normally behaving agents in a network that may contain adversarially behaving agents. These algorithms guarantee that the consensus value lies within the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

This paper investigates the problem of securing exponentially fast consensus (exponential consensus for short) for identical agents with finite-dimensional linear system dynamics over dynamic network topology. Our aim is to find the weakest…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Qichao Ma , Jiahu Qin , Brian D. O. Anderson , Long Wang

A continuous-opinion model accounting for the social compromise propensity is theoretically and numerically analysed. An agent's opinion is represented by a real number that can be changed through social interactions with her neighbours.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-09 Carlos Uriarte , Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Nagi Khalil

In this paper we study multiagent models with time-varying type change. Assume that there exist a closed system of $N$ agents classified into $r$ types according to their states of an internal system; each agent changes its type by an…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Biao Wu

This paper studies the consensus problem of general linear discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS) with input constraints and bounded time-varying communication delays. We propose a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Henglai Wei , Changxin Liu , Yang Shi

In this work we study the problem of unconstrained convex-optimization in a fully distributed multi-agent setting which includes asynchronous computation and lossy communication. In particular, we extend a recently proposed algorithm named…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Nicoletta Bof , Ruggero Carli , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Luca Schenato , Damiano Varagnolo

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL)-based backstepping control strategy to achieve fixed time consensus in nonlinear multi-agent systems with strict feedback dynamics. Agents exchange only output information with their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Aria Delshad , Maryam Babazadeh