Title :
Controllability of a Leader-Follower Dynamic Network with Interaction Time Delays
Author :
Liu, Bo ; Zou, Jietao ; Zhang, Jie ; Chu, Tianguang ; Wang, Long
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Sci., North China Univ. of Technol., Beijing
Abstract :
This paper studies the controllability of a leader-follower network of dynamic agents in the presence of communication delays. The network dynamics is governed by nearest neighbor rules over a fixed communication topology. The leader is a particular agent acting as an external input to steer the other member agents. We derive sufficient conditions of the controllability of the dynamic network and give an example to illustrate the main results.
Keywords :
controllability; delay systems; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; controllability; dynamic agents; fixed communication topology; interaction time delays; leader-follower dynamic network; multi-agent systems; multiple dynamic agents; nearest neighbor rules; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Controllability; Delay effects; Educational institutions; Graph theory; Multiagent systems; Nearest neighbor searches; Network topology;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2008. FSKD '08. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jinan Shandong
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3305-6
DOI :
10.1109/FSKD.2008.607
