Title :
Agreement over networks of mobile agents
Author :
Mudasir, Farhan ; Porfiri, Maurizio ; Kapila, Vikram
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Univ., Brooklyn
Abstract :
In a consensus problem, autonomous agents constituting a dynamical system communicate with one another to reach agreement on certain quantities of interest such as heading, attitude, opinion, etc. In this paper, we consider the consensus problem for autonomous agents meandering as random walkers in a discrete lattice. Agents can share information if they reside at the same site in the lattice. We formulate consensus among the agents as a consequence of the disagreement among the agents approaching zero, almost-surely.
Keywords :
graph theory; mobile agents; autonomous agents; discrete lattice; dynamical system; mobile agents networks; random walkers; Autonomous agents; Control systems; Convergence; Lattices; Mobile agents; Network topology; Oscillators; Remotely operated vehicles; Stochastic processes; Vehicle dynamics; Markov chain; consensus; random graph; random walk; stochastic stability;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2007 46th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1497-0
Electronic_ISBN :
0191-2216
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2007.4434774
