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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

In this paper, we study multi-agent network games subject to affine time-varying coupling constraints and a time-varying communication network. We focus on the class of games adopting proximal dynamics and study their convergence to a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Carlo Cenedese , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico , Ming Cao

We present consensus analysis of systems with single integrator dynamics interacting via time-varying graphs under the event-triggered control paradigm. Event-triggered control sparsifies the control applied, thus reducing the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-03 S. Arun Kumar , N. R. Chowdhury , S. Srikant , J. Raisch

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

We investigate the stability and robustness properties of a continuification-based strategy for the control of large-scale multiagent systems. Within continuation-based strategy, one transforms the microscopic, agent-level description of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Maurizio Porfiri , Mario di Bernardo

This paper studies a consensus problem of multi-agent systems subjected to external disturbances over the clustered network. It considers that the agents are divided into several clusters. They are almost all the time isolated one from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Thiem V. Pham , Quynh T. T. Nguyen

In this report we provide a decentralized robust control approach, which guarantees that connectivity of a multi-agent network is maintained when certain bounded input terms are added to the control strategy. Our main motivation for this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Dimitris Boskos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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

In the typical multiagent formation tracking problem centered on consensus, the prevailing assumption in the literature is that the agents' nonlinear models can be approximated by integrator systems, by their feedback-linearized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Clinton Enwerem , John S. Baras

This paper investigates the problem of consensus tracking control of discrete time multi-agent systems under binary-valued communication. Different from most existing studies on consensus tracking, the transmitted information between agents…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ting Wang , Zhuangzhuang Qiu , Xiaodong Lu , Yanlong Zhao

In this work, we introduce a Z-control strategy for multi-agent systems of arbitrary order, aimed at driving the agents toward consensus in the highest-order observable state. The proposed framework supports both direct and indirect control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Angela Monti , Fasma Diele

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

This article presents the consensus of a saturated second order multi-agent system with non-switching dynamics that can be represented by a directed graph. The system is affected by data processing (input delay) and communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Venkata Karteek Yanumula , Indrani Kar , Somanath Majhi

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

This work addresses the synchronization/consensus problem of identical multi-agent system (MAS) where the agents' dynamics are linear and the communication network is arbitrarily switching among connected topologies. The approach uses a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Chong Jin Ong , Ilayda Canyakmaz

Group consensus implies reaching multiple groups where agents belonging to the same cluster reach state consensus. This paper focuses on linear multi-agent systems under nonnegative directed graphs. A new necessary and sufficient condition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Zhongchang Liu , Wing Shing Wong

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

This published paper investigates the distributed tracking control problem for a class of Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems when the agents can only measure the positions. In this case, the lack of the separation principle and the strong…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Qingkai Yang , Hao Fang , Jie Chen , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Ming Cao

In a multi-agent system, unconditional (multiple) consensus is the property of reaching to (multiple) consensus irrespective of the instant and values at which states are initialized. For linear algorithms, occurrence of unconditional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Sadegh Bolouki , Roland P. Malhame

This paper presents a consensus algorithm for a multi-agent system where each agent has access to its imperfect own state and neighboring state measurements. The measurements are subject to deterministic disturbances and the proposed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Mohammad Zamani , Iman Shames , Valery Ugrinovskii