Output feedback bipartite consensus and consensus of linear multi-agent systems

This paper studies bipartite consensus problem for general linear multi-agent systems, where both collaboration and competition between agents coexist. We establish an equivalence between output feedback bipartite consensus problems and the conventional output feedback consensus problems, which enables a direct application of existing output feedback consensus algorithms to solve bipartite consensus problems. Moreover, we propose a systematic approach to design output feedback bipartite consensus controller.