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This paper investigates the consensus problem of multiple uncertain Lagrangian systems. Due to the discontinuity resulted from the switching topology, achieving consensus in the context of uncertain Lagrangian systems is challenging. We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Hanlei Wang

This work shows an approach to achieve output consensus among heterogeneous agents in a multi-agent environment where each agent is subject to input constraints. The communication among agents is described by a time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Chong Jin Ong , Bonan Hou

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

This paper considers an internal model based distributed control approach to the cooperative output regulation problem of heterogeneous linear time-invariant multiagent systems over fixed directed communication graph topologies. First, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Selahattin Burak Sarsilmaz , Tansel Yucelen

This paper addresses the problem of positive consensus of directed multi-agent systems with observer-type output-feedback protocols. More specifically, directed graph is used to model the communication topology of the multi-agent system and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Nachuan Yang , Yonghua Yin , Jinrong Liu

In this paper, we consider a leader-following consensus problem of a group of autonomous agents with time-varying coupling delays. Two different cases of coupling topologies are investigated. At first, a necessary and sufficient condition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jiangping Hu , Yiguang Hong

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji

In this paper, we consider an output consensus problem for a general class of nonlinear multi-agent systems without a prior knowledge of the agents' control directions. Two distributed Nussbaumtype control laws are proposed to solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Yutao Tang

In this paper, we study consensus problem in multi-agent system with directed topology by event-triggered feedback control. That is, at each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the information from its latest observations…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-04-07 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

This paper focuses on the problem of distributed consensus control of multi-agent systems while considering two main practical concerns (i) stochastic noise in the agent dynamics and (ii) predefined performance constraints over evolutions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Pushpak Jagtap , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-agent target tracking in the presence of nonlinear dynamics and agent heterogeneity, where state-space dimensions may differ, is a challenging problem that traditional graph Laplacian methods cannot easily address. This work leverages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Tyler Hanks , Cristian F. Nino , Joana Bou Barcelo , Austin Copeland , Warren Dixon , James Fairbanks

In multi-agent systems, heterogeneous time delays exist for all agents because of the difference in communication environments. Therefore, the consensus analysis of a system considering a homogeneous time-varying delay among all agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Hye Jin Lee , Ho Sub Lee , PooGyeon Park

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

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

In this work, leader follower consensus objective has been addressed with the synthesis of an event based controller utilizing sliding mode robust control. The schema has been partitioned into two parts viz. finite time consensus problem…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Abhinav Sinha , Rajiv Kumar Mishra

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, a novel two-level framework was proposed and applied to solve the output average consensus problem over heterogeneous multi-agent systems. This approach is mainly based on the recent technique of system abstraction. For given…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Yutao Tang

This article investigates the consensus tracking problem of multi-agent systems under jointly connected topology through automated synthesis of Lyapunov functions. Based on the proposed distributed nonlinear control protocol, several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Shuyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Qing-Guo Wang

In this paper, we propose a multiplex proportional-integral approach, for solving consensus problems in networks of heterogeneous nodes dynamics affected by constant disturbances. The proportional and integral actions are deployed on two…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Daniel Alberto Burbano Lombana , Mario di Bernardo

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