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This paper considers a localized data-driven consensus problem for leader-follower multi-agent systems with unknown discrete-time agent dynamics, where each follower computes its local control gain using only their locally collected state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Zeze Chang , Junjie Jiao , Zhongkui Li

This paper investigates the fixed-time consensus problem under directed topologies. By using a motion-planning approach, a class of distributed fixed-time algorithms are developed for a multi-agent system with double-integrator dynamics. In…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Yongfang Liu , Yu Zhao , Wei Ren , Guanrong Chen

In this paper, we study consensus problem in multi-agent system with directed topology by event-triggered feedback control. That is, at each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the information from its latest observations…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-04-07 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

In this paper, we develop a novel dynamic distributed optimal safe consensus protocol to simultaneously achieve safety requirements and output optimal consensus. Specifically, we construct a distributed projection optimization algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Ji Ma , Shu Liang , Yiguang Hong

This paper addresses the distributed prescribed-time leader-following consensus problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with perturbed nonlinear agents dynamics and where the topology of the network contains a directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 J. Armando Colunga , Héctor M. Becerra , Carlos R. Vázquez , David Gómez-Gutiérrez

Originally, protocols were designed for multi-agent systems (MAS) using information about the network which might not be available. Recently, there has been a focus on scale-free synchronization where the protocol is designed without any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Anton A. Stoorvogel , Ali Saberi , Zhenwei Liu

Distributed consensus protocols provide a mechanism for spreading information within clustered networks, allowing agents and clusters to make decisions without requiring direct access to the state of the ensemble. In this work, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips

The purpose of this short paper is to provide a theoretical analysis for the consensus problem under nonlinear protocols. A main contribution of this work is to generalize the previous consensus problems under nonlinear protocols for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

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

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

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

This paper mainly investigates consensus problem with pull-based event-triggered feedback control. For each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the states of its in-neighbors at its latest triggering time and the next…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

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

In this paper, we consider the consensus problem of switched multi-agent system composed of continuous-time and discrete-time subsystems. By combining the classical consensus protocols of continuous-time and discrete-time multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yuanshi Zheng , Jingying Ma , Long Wang

This paper presents a distributed adaptive control strategy for multi-agent systems with heterogeneous dynamics and collision avoidance. We propose an adaptive control strategy designed to ensure leader-following formation consensus while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Armel Koulong , Ali Pakniyat

We propose an efficient protocol for decentralized training of deep neural networks from distributed data sources. The proposed protocol allows to handle different phases of model training equally well and to quickly adapt to concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Michael Kamp , Linara Adilova , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Tim Wirtz , Stefan Wrobel

We consider the global consensus problem for multi-agent systems with input saturation over digraphs. Under a mild connectivity condition that the underlying digraph has a directed spanning tree, we use Lyapunov methods to show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we study the robust consensus problem for a set of discrete-time linear agents to coordinate over an uncertain communication network, which is to achieve consensus against the transmission errors and noises resulted from the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhongkui Li , Jie Chen

This paper proposes a new architecture for multi-agent systems to cover an unknowingly distributed fast, safely, and decentralizedly. The inter-agent communication is organized by a directed graph with fixed topology, and we model agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Hossein Rastgoftar

This paper introduces a novel decentralized implementation of a continuification-based strategy to control the density of large-scale multi-agent systems on the unit circle. While continuification methods effectively address micro-to-macro…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo