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In this paper, robust finite-time consensus of a group of nonlinear multi-agent systems in the presence of communication time delays is considered. In particular, appropriate delay-dependent strategies which are less conservative are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Maryam Sharifi

Consensus of autonomous agents is a benchmark problem in cooperative control. In this paper, we consider standard continuous-time averaging consensus policies (or Laplacian flows) over time-varying graphs and focus on robustness of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Guiseppe Calafiore

This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs and external unmatched disturbances. A novel distributed adaptive consensus protocol is proposed to achieve…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Yuezu Lv , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Gang Feng

In this paper, we consider the consensus problem of switched multi-agent system composed of continuous-time and discrete-time subsystems. By combining the classical consensus protocols of continuous-time and discrete-time multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yuanshi Zheng , Jingying Ma , Long Wang

Recently, a scalable approach to system analysis and controller synthesis for homogeneous multi-agent systems with Bernoulli distributed packet loss has been proposed. As a key result of that line of work, it was shown how to obtain upper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Christian Hespe , Herbert Werner

In this paper, we consider a robust consensus tracking problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with time-varying interconnection topologies. Based on common Lyapunov function and internal model techniques, both state and output…

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

This paper considers the distributed consensus problems for multi-agent systems with general linear and Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics. Distributed relative-state consensus protocols with an adaptive law for adjusting the coupling weights…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Zhongkui Li , Wei Ren , Xiangdong Liu , Mengyin Fu

In this paper, we study the consensus problem for continuous-time and discrete-time multi-agent systems in state-dependent switching networks. In each case, we first consider the networks with fixed connectivity, in which the communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Gangshan Jing , Yuanshi Zheng , Long Wang

The paper proposes an intermittent communication mechanism for the tracking consensus of high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) surrounded by random disturbances. Each collaborating agent is described by a class of high-order…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Ali Azarbahram

This paper studies a consensus problem in multidimensional networks having the same agent-to-agent interaction pattern under both intra- and cross-layer time delays. Several conditions for the agents to asymptotically reach a consensus are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Hoang Huy Vu , Quyen Ngoc Nguyen , Tuynh Van Pham , Chuong Van Nguyen , Minh Hoang Trinh

This article deals with the consensus problem involving agents with time-varying singularities in the dynamics or communication in undirected graph networks. Existing results provide control laws which guarantee asymptotic consensus. These…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury , Srikant Sukumar

This paper develops a novel approach to the consensus problem of multi-agent systems by minimizing a weighted state error with neighbor agents via linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Existing consensus control algorithms only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang , Lihua Xie

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

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

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 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

This article addresses the problem of average consensus in a multi-agent system when the desired consensus quantity is a time varying signal. Recently, the EDCHO protocol leveraged high order sliding modes to achieve exact consensus under a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés

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

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

Consensus over networked agents is typically studied using undirected or directed communication graphs. Undirected graphs enforce symmetry in information exchange, leading to convergence to the average of initial states, while directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Abhinav Sinha , Dwaipayan Mukherjee , Shashi Ranjan Kumar