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This work aims to address the design of fully distributed control protocols for stochastic consensus, and, for the first time, establishes the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the path-dependent and highly nonlinear closed-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xuping Hou , Xiaofeng Zong , Yong He

The purpose of this short paper is to provide a theoretical analysis for the consensus problem under nonlinear protocols. A main contribution of this work is to generalize the previous consensus problems under nonlinear protocols for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

We propose a distributed event-triggered control law to solve the consensus problem for multi-agent systems with nonlinear output. Under the condition that the underlying digraph is strongly connected, we propose some sufficient conditions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

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

The leader-following consensus problem for general linear multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching networks has been a challenging problem and the solvability of the problem has been limited to the class of linear multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Yuhan Chen , Tao Liu , Jie Huang

Motivated by the needs of resiliency, scalability, and plug-and-play operation, distributed decision-making is becoming increasingly prevalent. The problem of achieving consensus in a multi-agent system is at the core of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Vivek Khatana , Murti V. Salapaka

This paper investigates a robust positive consensus problem for a class of heterogeneous high-order multi-agent systems subject to external inputs. Compared with existing multi-agent consensus results, the most distinct feature of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Ruonan Li , Yutao Tang , Shurong Li

The leader-following consensus of multiple linear time invariant (LTI) systems under switching topology is considered. The leader-following consensus problem consists of designing for each agent a distributed protocol to make all agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Wei Ni , Xiaoli Wang , Chun Xiong

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

In this paper, we consider the consensus problem of dynamical multiple agents that communicate via a directed moving neighborhood random network. Each agent performs random walk on a weighted directed network. Agents interact with each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Yilun Shang

A theorem on (partial) convergence to consensus of multiagent systems is presented. It is proven with tools studying the convergence properties of products of row stochastic matrices with positive diagonals which are infinite to the left.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jan Lorenz

In this paper, the optimal consensus problem for general nonlinear multi-agent systems is studied, where both leaderless and leader-follower cases are considered in a unified framework. The key idea is to convert consensus problems into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ziyuan Guo , Chuanzhi lv , Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper mainly investigates consensus problem with pull-based event-triggered feedback control. For each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the states of its in-neighbors at its latest triggering time and the next…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

This paper investigates a decentralized design approach of leader-following consensus protocols for heterogeneous multiagent systems under a fixed communication topology with a directed spanning tree (DST) and asymmetric weight matrix.…

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

This paper addresses the robust consensus problem under switching topologies. Contrary to existing methods, the proposed approach provides decentralized protocols that achieve consensus for networked multi-agent systems in a predefined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 R. Aldana-López , D. Gómez-Gutiérrez , M. Defoort , J. D. Sánchez-Torres , A. J. Muñoz-Vázquez

This paper considers the distributed robust control problems of uncertain linear multi-agent systems with undirected communication topologies. It is assumed that the agents have identical nominal dynamics while subject to different…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Lihua Xie , Xiangdong Liu

In this paper, finite-time state consensus problems for continuous-time multi-agent systems are discussed, and two distributive protocols, which ensure that the states of agents reach an agreement in a finite time, are presented. By…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Long Wang , Feng Xiao

This paper addresses the adaptive consensus problem in uncertain multi-agent systems, particularly under challenges posed by quantized communication. We consider agents with general linear dynamics subject to nonlinear uncertainties and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Woocheol Choi , Piljae Jang

In this paper consensus in second-order multi-agent systems with a non-periodic sampled-data exchange among agents is investigated. The sampling is random with bounded inter-sampling intervals. It is assumed that each agent has exact…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Mehran Zareh , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Mauro Franceschelli , Karl Henrik Johansson , Carla Seatzu

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