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In this work, we study the consensus problem in which legitimate agents send their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of an unknown subset of malicious or faulty agents. In contrast to former works, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Orhan Eren Akgün , Sarper Aydın , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

The association of weights in a distributed consensus protocol quantify the trust that an agent has on its neighbors in a network. An important problem in such networked systems is the uncertainty in the estimation of trust between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Venkatraman Renganathan , Angela Fontan , Karthik Ganapathy

This paper considers a novel multi-agent linear stochastic approximation algorithm driven by Markovian noise and general consensus-type interaction, in which each agent evolves according to its local stochastic approximation process which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yixuan Lin , Vijay Gupta , Ji Liu

Adaptive guaranteed-performance consensus control problems for multi-agent systems are investigated, where the adjustable convergence speed is discussed. This paper firstly proposes a novel adaptive guaranteed-performance consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hai-Ying Ma , Xiao Jia , Ning Cai , Jian-Xiang Xi

Linear consensus iterations guarantee asymptotic convergence, thereby, limiting their applicability in applications where consensus value needs to be used in real time to perform a system level task. It also leads to wastage of power and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Mangal Prakash , Saurav Talukdar , Sandeep Attree , Vikas Yadav , Murti Salapaka

This paper studies the problem of finding the median of N distinct numbers distributed across networked agents. Each agent updates its estimate for the median from noisy local observations of one of the N numbers and information from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Shuhua Yu , Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar

This paper proposes a continuous-time dynamic active weighted average consensus algorithm in which the agents can alternate between active and passive modes depending on their ability to access to their reference input. The objective is to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Yi-Fan Chung , Solmaz S. Kia

This paper introduces a conception that any weighted directed network topology is almost decouplable, which can help to transform the topology into a similar form being composed of uncoupled vertices, and thus reduce the complexity of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Ning Cai , M. Junaid Khan

This paper investigates a decentralized design approach of leader-following consensus protocols for heterogeneous multiagent systems under a fixed communication topology with a directed spanning tree (DST) and asymmetric weight matrix.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Lanhao Zhao , Yangzhou Chen

This paper proposes a new approach to analyze and synthesize robust consensus control laws for general linear leaderless multi-agent systems (MASs) subjected to input constraints or uncertainties. First, the MAS under input constraints or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Dinh Hoa Nguyen , Tatsuo Narikiyo , Michihiro Kawanishi

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

We study the asymptotic properties of distributed consensus algorithms over switching directed random networks. More specifically, we focus on consensus algorithms over independent and identically distributed, directed random graphs, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Victor M. Preciado , Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi , Ali Jadbabaie

In this work, we consider the consensus problem in which legitimate agents share their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of malicious or faulty agents. Different from the previous works, we characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Sarper Aydın , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

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

This paper proposes a novel distributed event-triggered algorithmic solution to the multi-agent average consensus problem for networks whose communication topology is described by weight-balanced, strongly connected digraphs. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Cameron Nowzari , Jorge Cortes

We address discrete-time consensus on the Euclidean unit sphere. For this purpose we consider a distributed algorithm comprising the iterative projection of a conical combination of neighboring states. Neighborhoods are represented by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Johan Thunberg , Galina Sidorenko

This letter examines the controllability of consensus dynamics on matrix-weighed networks from a graph-theoretic perspective. Unlike the scalar-weighted networks, the rank of weight matrix introduces additional intricacies into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Mehran Mesbahi , Yugeng Xi , Dewei Li

The present paper is devoted to the study of average consensus problems for undirected networks of dynamic agents having communication delays. The accent is put here on the study of the time-delays influence: both constant and time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Pierre-Alexandre Bliman , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Multiagent systems consist of agents that locally exchange information through a physical network subject to a graph topology. Current control methods for networked multiagent systems assume the knowledge of graph topologies in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tansel Yucelen , John Daniel Peterson , Kevin L. Moore

Most algorithms for decentralized learning employ a consensus or diffusion mechanism to drive agents to a common solution of a global optimization problem. Generally this takes the form of linear averaging, at a rate of contraction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Aaron Fainman , Stefan Vlaski