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A Framework of Stability Analysis for Multi-agent Systems on Arbitrary Topology Graph: Linear Systems

Systems and Control 2015-04-17 v1

Abstract

In this paper, from the structural perspective, we propose a new stability analysis approach for the consensus of linear multi-agent systems. Different from the general tools: the Laplacian matrix based method and the Lyapunov's method, this approach treats the multi-agent system as the composition of many isolated agents, and focuses on their special input and output relationship. Through transforming the construction of a graph into a standard procedure only including three basic structures, the stability analysis is recursive and independent of the specific topology. Therefore, this approach can be used for multi-agent systems on any topology graph.

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@article{arxiv.1504.04240,
  title  = {A Framework of Stability Analysis for Multi-agent Systems on Arbitrary Topology Graph: Linear Systems},
  author = {Wang Yong and Li Guiming},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04240},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures

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