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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

Distributed control increases system scalability, flexibility, and redundancy. Foundational to such decentralisation is consensus formation, by which decision-making and coordination are achieved. However, decentralised multi-agent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Agathe Bouis , Christopher Lowe , Ruaridh A. Clark , Malcolm Macdonald

In this paper, we investigate the consensus problem of second-order multiagent systems under directed graphs. Simple yet robust consensus algorithms that advance existing achievements in accounting for velocity and input constraints, agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Gang Wang , Zongyu Zuo , Chaoli Wang

We present a method for determining optimal modes of operation for autonomously oscillating systems with uncertain parameters. In a typical application of the method, a nonlinear dynamical system is optimized with respect to an economic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Darya Kastsian , Martin Mönnigmann

This paper presents the distributed pinning consensus solution for nonlinear positive multi-agent systems with nonlinear control input by applying observer-based control protocols. The network topology is considered as a directed and fully…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Amirreza Zaman , Wolfgang Birk , Khalid Tourkey Atta

This paper presents the design and analysis of the finite/fixed-time scaled consensus for multiagent systems. A study on a generic attracting law, the certain classes of nonlinear systems that admit attractors with finite/fixed-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Mingxuan Sun , Xing Li

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 aims to achieve scalable exact output and regulated output synchronization for discrete-time multi-agent systems in presence of disturbances and measurement noise with known frequencies. Both homogeneous and heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Zhenwei Liu , Meirong Zhang , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel

Guaranteed-cost consensus for high-order nonlinear multi-agent networks with switching topologies is investigated. By constructing a time-varying nonsingular matrix with a specific structure, the whole dynamics of multi-agent networks is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Jianxiang Xi , Zhiliang Fan , Hao Liu , Tang Zheng

This paper addresses the positive synchronization of interconnected systems on undirected graphs. For homogeneous positive systems, a static feedback protocol design is proposed, based on the Linear Regulator problem. The solution to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Alba Gurpegui , Mark Jeeninga , Emma Tegling , Anders Rantzer

This paper presents a new method for achieving dynamic consensus in linear discrete-time homogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS) with marginally stable or unstable dynamics. The guarantee of consensus in this setting involves a set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Maryam Babazadeh , Naim Bajcinca

This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing the output synchronization problem in unknown heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) using noisy data. Unlike existing studies that focus on noiseless data, we introduce a distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Yifei Li , Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

This paper studies the leaderless consensus problem of {heterogeneous} multiple networked Euler-Lagrange systems subject to persistent disturbances with unknown constant biases, amplitudes, initial phases, and frequencies. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Shimin Wang , Hongwei Zhang , Simone Baldi , Renxin Zhong

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-20 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Danilo Mandic

Multi-agent decision-making under uncertainty is fundamental for effective and safe autonomous operation. In many real-world scenarios, each agent maintains its own belief over the environment and must plan actions accordingly. However,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Moshe Rafaeli Shimron , Vadim Indelman

Gradual advancement of control technology gives rise to the studies of the stability of linear systems. The stability of the linear multiagent system is motivated by increasing utilization of agent dynamics together with the number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Gurmu Meseret Debele

In real-world problems, uncertainties (e.g., errors in the measurement, precision errors) often lead to poor performance of numerical algorithms when not explicitly taken into account. This is also the case for control problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Carlos Ignacio Hernández Castellanos , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Sebastian Peitz

This paper focuses on consensus problems for high-order, linear multi-agent systems. Undirected communication topologies and fixed, uniform communication time delay are taken into account. This class of problems has been widely study in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Rudy Cepeda-Gomez

In this paper, we provide a theoretical analysis for nonlinear discontinuous consensus protocols in networks of multiagents over weighted directed graphs. By integrating the analytic tools from nonsmooth stability analysis and graph theory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Liu Bo , Lu Wenlian , Chen Tianping