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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

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

This paper proposes an adaptation mechanism for heterogeneous multi-agent systems to align the agents' internal parameters, based on enforced consensus through strong couplings. Unlike homogeneous systems, where exact consensus is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Hyungbo Shim , Jin Gyu Lee , B. D. O. Anderson

The present work analyses a particular scenario of consensus formation, where the individuals navigate across an underlying network defining the topology of the walks. The consensus, associated to a given opinion coded as a simple messages,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-01-17 Andrés Chacoma , Germán Mato , Marcelo N. Kuperman

This paper investigates the distributed consensus tracking control problem for general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with external disturbances and heterogeneous time-varying input and communication delays under a directed communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Wei Jiang , Kun Liu , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper presents a distributed adaptive control strategy for multi-agent systems with heterogeneous dynamics and collision avoidance. We propose an adaptive control strategy designed to ensure leader-following formation consensus while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Armel Koulong , Ali Pakniyat

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 paper considers the problem of multi-agent consensus in the presence of adversarial agents which may try to prevent and introduce undesired influence on the coordination among the regular agents. To our setting, we extend the so-called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Hiroki Matsume , Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii

In this paper, a discrete-time multi-agent system is presented which is formulated in terms of the delta operator. The proposed multi-agent system can unify discrete-time and continuous-time multi-agent systems. In a multi-agent network, in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Xue Lin , Yuanshi Zheng , Long Wang

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

This paper considers the distributed event-triggered consensus problem for general linear multi-agent networks. Both the leaderless and leader-follower consensus problems are considered. Based on the local sampled state or local output…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Bin Cheng , Zhongkui Li

In this technical note we address the problem of achieving consensus in a network of homogeneous nonlinear systems. The communication network is supposed to be switching within a finite set of topologies which may be disconnected for finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-16 G. Casadei , L. Marconi , A. Isidori

In this paper we study a discrete time consensus model on a connected graph with monotonically increasing peer-pressure and noise perturbed outputs masking a hidden state. We assume that each agent maintains a constant hidden state and a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-05 Christopher Griffin , Anna Squicciarini , Feiran Jia

Identifying articulation points (APs) is fundamental to assessing the robustness of time-varying networks. In such dynamic environments, topological changes including edge additions and deletions can instantly alter the set of APs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xinye Xie , Ronghao Zheng , Senlin Zhang , Meiqin Liu

In this paper, we introduce a novel adaptation of the Raft consensus algorithm for achieving emergent formation control in multi-agent systems with a single integrator dynamics. This strategy, dubbed "Rafting," enables robust cooperation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Abbas Tariverdi , Jim Torresen

The structure of a network can significantly influence the properties of the dynamical processes which take place on them. While many studies have been devoted to this influence, much less attention has been devoted to the interplay and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-01-10 Balazs Kozma , Alain Barrat

The current paper deals with limited-budget output consensus for descriptor multiagent systems with two types of switching communication topologies; that is, switching connected ones and jointly connected ones. Firstly, a singular dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Jianxiang Xi , Cheng Wang , Xiaojun Yang , Bailong Yang

We study delay-induced transitions in consensus dynamics on signed networks with a ring topology. The proposed model is formulated as a system of delay differential equations incorporating both cooperative and antagonistic interactions, as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Hui Wu

We consider continuous-time consensus seeking systems whose time-dependent interactions are cut-balanced, in the following sense: if a group of agents influences the remaining ones, the former group is also influenced by the remaining ones…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Julien M. Hendrickx , John N. Tsitsiklis

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran