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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

The constrained consensus problem considered in this paper, denoted interval consensus, is characterized by the fact that each agent can impose a lower and upper bound on the achievable consensus value. Such constraints can be encoded in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Angela Fontan , Guodong Shi , Xiaoming Hu , Claudio Altafini

This paper studies the consensus problem of multi-agent systems with asymmetric and reducible topologies. Centralized event-triggered rules are provided so as to reduce the frequency of system's updating. The diffusion coupling feedbacks of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-07-08 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

In this paper, we address the distributed average consensus problem over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where the stability of the network is disrupted by frequent agent arrivals and departures, leading to a…

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 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

We study a multi-agent output regulation problem, where not all agents have access to the exosystem's dynamics. We propose a fully distributed controller that solves the problem for linear, heterogeneous, and uncertain agent dynamics as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Satoshi Kawamura , Kai Cai , Masako Kishida

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

In this paper, the communication effort required in a multi-agent system (MAS) is minimized via an explicit optimization formulation. The paper considers a MAS of single-integrator agents with bounded inputs and a time-invariant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Vishal Sawant , Debraj Chakraborty , Debasattam Pal

This paper studies distributed resilient consensus problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems susceptible to deception attacks. The attacks invade both sensor and actuator channels of each agent. A specific class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mengze Yu , Wei Wang , Jiaqi Yan

This paper introduces a novel approach for achieving fixed-time tracking consensus control in multiagent systems (MASs). Departing from the reliance on traditional controllers, our innovative controller integrates modified tuning and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Kewei Zhou , Ziming Wang , Zhihao Chen , Xin Wang

General nonlinear continuous-time systems are considered for which its state is estimated via a packet-based communication network. We assume that the system has multiple sensor nodes, affected by measurement noise, which can transmit at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Koen J. A. Scheres , Michelle S. Chong , Romain Postoyan , W. P. Maurice H. Heemels

We derive fundamental performance limitations for intrinsic average consensus problems in open multi-agent systems, which are systems subject to frequent arrivals and departures of agents. Each agent holds a value, and the objective of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Julien M. Hendrickx

This paper investigates the fixed-time consensus problem for a class of multi-agent systems with simple dynamics. Unlike the traditional way to realize fixed-time convergence, a novel strategy using the property of periodic functions is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Yuquan Chen , Fumian Wang , Bing Wang

This paper addresses the global consensus problems of a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with Lipschitz nonlinearity and directed communication graphs, by using a distributed consensus protocol based on the relative states of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Zhongkui Li , Xiangdong Liu , Mengyin Fu , Lihua Xie

In this paper, a Hankel matrix-based fully distributed algorithm is proposed to address a minimal-time deadbeat consensus prediction problem for discrete-time high-order multi-agent systems (MASs). Therein, each agent can predict the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Fu-Long Hu , Hai-Tao Zhang , Bowen Xu , Zhe Hu , Wei Ren

This note considers the constrained H-infinity consensus of multi-agent networks with nonidentical constraint sets. An improved distributed algorithm is adopted and a nonlinear controlled output function is defined to evaluate the effect of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Lipo Mo , Yingmin Jia , Yongguang Yu

We study cooperative output feedback tracking control of stochastic linear heterogeneous leader-following multi-agent systems. Each agent has a continuous-time linear heterogeneous dynamics with incompletely measurable state, and there are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Dianqiang Li , Tao Li

This paper addresses the leader-following consensus problem for discrete-time positive multi-agent systems over time-varying graphs. We assume that the followers may have mutually different positive dynamics which can also be different from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Ruonan Li , Yichen Zhang , Yutao Tang , Shurong Li

This paper provides a protocol to address the robust output feedback consensus problem for networked heterogeneous nonlinear negative-imaginary (NI) systems with free body dynamics. We extend the definition of nonlinear NI systems to allow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Kanghong Shi , Ian R. Petersen , Igor G. Vladimirov