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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 investigates the differentially private consensus problem for general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) based on output feedback protocols. To protect the output information, which is considered private data and may be at high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiaofeng Zong , Ming-Yu Wang , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tansel Yucelen , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper analyzes consensus in multi-agent systems under uniform and nonuniform communication delays, a key challenge in distributed coordination with applications to robotic swarms. It investigates the convergence of a consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Shokoufeh Naderi , Maude Blondin , Sébastien Roy

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 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…

Consensus formation tracking of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to nonlinear and uncertain dynamics is a challenging problem in robotics. To tackle this challenge, a distributed bioinspired sliding mode controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Tao Yan , Zhe Xu , Simon X. Yang

This paper addresses the consensus of a class of uncertain nonlinear fractional-order multi-agent systems (FOMAS). First a fractional non-fragile dynamic output feedback controller is put forward via the output measurements of neighboring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Elyar Zavary , Pouya Badri , Mahdi Sojoodi

This paper is concerned with the consensus problem for multi-agent systems subject to communication delays between the neighboring agents. We consider a scenario where each agent is characterized by a general high-order linear system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

In this paper, we propose several consensus protocols of the first and second order for networked multi-agent systems and provide explicit representations for their asymptotic states. These representations involve the eigenprojection of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Rafig Agaev , Pavel Chebotarev

This paper introduces a novel continuous-time dynamic average consensus algorithm for networks whose interaction is described by a strongly connected and weight-balanced directed graph. The proposed distributed algorithm allows agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

Multi-agent coordination algorithms with randomized interactions have seen use in a variety of settings in the multi-agent systems literature. In some cases, these algorithms can be random by design, as in a gossip-like algorithm, and in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Matthew T. Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper studies consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems under time-varying directed communication, state and input constraints using a distributed multi-step model predictive control (MPC) framework. Consensus is recast as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Navid Noroozi

The problem of consensus in the presence of misbehaving agents has increasingly attracted attention in the literature. Prior results have established algorithms and graph structures for multi-agent networks which guarantee the consensus of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-28 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

The leader-following consensus of multiple linear time invariant (LTI) systems under switching topology is considered. The leader-following consensus problem consists of designing for each agent a distributed protocol to make all agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Wei Ni , Xiaoli Wang , Chun Xiong

In this paper, the optimal consensus problem for general nonlinear multi-agent systems is studied, where both leaderless and leader-follower cases are considered in a unified framework. The key idea is to convert consensus problems into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ziyuan Guo , Chuanzhi lv , Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

Populations of mobile and communicating agents describe a vast array of technological and natural systems, ranging from sensor networks to animal groups. Here, we investigate how a group-level agreement may emerge in the continuously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-25 Andrea Baronchelli , Albert Diaz-Guilera

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

A consensus system is a linear multi-agent system in which agents communicate to reach a so-called consensus state, defined as the average of the initial states of the agents. Consider a more generalized situation in which each agent is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

This article addresses the problem of average consensus in a multi-agent system when the desired consensus quantity is a time varying signal. Although this problem has been addressed in existing literature by linear schemes, only bounded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés