Consensus for multi-agent systems — Synchronization and regulation for complex networks

Author

Tao Yang ; Stoorvogel, A.A. ; Saberi, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

June 29 2011-July 1 2011

Firstpage

5312

Lastpage

5317

Abstract

In this paper, we consider three problems, namely, the consensus (synchronization) problem, the model-reference consensus problem, and the regulation of consensus problem, for a network of identical linear time-invariant (LTI) multi input and multi-output (MIMO) agents. For each problem, we propose a distributed LTI protocol to solve such a problem for a broad class of time-invariant network topologies including not only Laplacian topologies, but a wide family of asymmetric topologies.

Keywords

MIMO systems; complex networks; linear systems; multi-agent systems; network theory (graphs); network topology; protocols; synchronisation; LTI agents; Laplacian topology; MIMO; asymmetric topology; complex networks; distributed protocol; linear time-invariant; model-reference consensus problem; multi-agent systems; multiple input multiple output; synchronization; time-invariant network topology; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Laplace equations; Network topology; Protocols; Topology; Trajectory; Zirconium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference (ACC), 2011

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0080-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2011.5990863

Filename

5990863