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In this chapter we look at one of the canonical driving examples for multi-agent systems: average consensus. In this scenario, a group of agents seek to agree on the average of their initial states. Depending on the particular application,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Cameron Nowzari , Jorge Cortes , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we consider the consensus problem of dynamical multiple agents that communicate via a directed moving neighborhood random network. Each agent performs random walk on a weighted directed network. Agents interact with each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Yilun Shang

Multi-agent systems driven by large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities for solving complex tasks in a collaborative manner. This work considers a fundamental problem in multi-agent collaboration: consensus seeking. When…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Huaben Chen , Wenkang Ji , Lufeng Xu , Shiyu Zhao

This paper studies the consensus problem for multiagent systems with transmission constraints. A novel model of multiagent systems is proposed where the information transmissions between agents are disturbed by irregular distortions or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Xiaotian Wang , Housheng Su

In this note, we discuss the problem of consensus finding in communication networks of agents with dynamically switching topologies. In particular, we consider the case of directed networks with unbalanced matrices of communication rates.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Jan Haskovec

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

This paper addresses the distributed consensus problem for a linear multi-agent system with switching directed communication topologies. By appropriately introducing a linear transformation, the consensus problem is equivalently converted…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Guanghui Wen , Valery Ugrinovskii

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

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

Consensus of autonomous agents is a benchmark problem in multi-agent control. In this paper, we consider continuous-time averaging consensus policies (or Laplacian flows) and their discrete-time counterparts over time-varying graphs in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

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 consider the consensus problem of hybrid multi-agent system. First, the hybrid multi-agent system is proposed which is composed of continuous-time and discrete-time dynamic agents. Then, three kinds of consensus protocols…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Yuanshi Zheng , Jingying Ma , Long Wang

This paper studies a class of consensus dynamics where the interactions between agents are affected by a time-varying unknown scaling factor. This situation is encountered in the control of robotic fleets over a wireless network or in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Zoltan Nagy , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu , Lucian Busoniu

In this paper, we study finite-time state consensus problems for continuous nonlinear multi-agent systems. Building on the theory of finite-time Lyapunov stability, we propose sufficient criteria which guarantee the system to reach a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-18 Yilun Shang

This paper considers the consensusability of multi-agent systems with delay and packet dropout. By proposing a kind of predictor-like protocol, sufficient and necessary conditions are given for the mean-square consensusability in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang , Lihua Xie

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 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

This paper concerns the consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with linear or linearized dynamics. An observer-type protocol based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents is proposed. The consensus of such a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

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

In this paper we study a discrete time consensus model on a connected graph with monotonically increasing peer-pressure and noise perturbed outputs masking a hidden state. We assume that each agent maintains a constant hidden state and a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-05 Christopher Griffin , Anna Squicciarini , Feiran Jia