Admissible consensus for singular time-delayed swarm systems with external disturbances

Admissible consensus analysis and design problems for high-order linear time-invariant singular swarm systems with time delays and external disturbances are investigated. Firstly, by the state space decomposition, a necessary and sufficient condition for admissible consensus is given and an approach is presented to determine consensus functions on the basis of different impacts of initial states of agents and external disturbances, which describe the absolute motions of singular swarm systems as a whole. Then, an L 2 evaluation approach which requires fewer limitations on the structures of consensus functions is proposed to determine the influences of external disturbances on relative motions among agents, and linear matrix inequality criteria for admissible L 2 consensus and consensualization are shown. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate theoretical results.