Title : 
Periodic behaviors in multi-agent systems with input saturation constraints
         
        
            Author : 
Tao Yang ; Ziyang Meng ; Dimarogonas, Dimos V. ; Johansson, Karl H.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we give conditions for the existence of periodic behaviors in a multi-agent system of identical discrete-time double integrators with input saturation constraints. If the feedback gain parameters of the controllers, which are based on relative state measurements of the agent itself and its neighboring agents, are bounded by a value depending on the largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix, then the multi-agent system exhibits a periodic solution for certain initial conditions.
         
        
            Keywords : 
discrete time systems; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; feedback; matrix algebra; multi-robot systems; periodic control; Laplacian matrix; feedback gain parameters; identical discrete-time double integrators; input saturation constraints; largest eigenvalue; multiagent systems; periodic behaviors; relative state measurements; Actuators; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Laplace equations; Multi-agent systems; Network topology; Protocols; Topology;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Decision and Control (CDC), 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Firenze
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5714-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CDC.2013.6760577