Almost regulated output synchronization for heterogeneous time-varying networks of non-introspective agents and without exchange of controller states

Author

Meirong Zhang ; Saberi, Ali ; Stoorvogel, Anton A. ; Sannuti, Peddapullaiah

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2015

fDate

1-3 July 2015

Firstpage

2735

Lastpage

2740

Abstract

We consider almost regulated output synchronization for heterogeneous directed networks with external disturbances where agents are non-introspective (i.e. agents have no access to their own states or outputs). A purely decentralized time-invariant protocol based on a low-and-high gain method is designed for each agent to achieve almost regulated output synchronization while reducing the impact of disturbances on the regulated output synchronization error. It is also shown that this protocol also works in the case of time-varying graphs.

Keywords

decentralised control; directed graphs; multi-agent systems; network theory (graphs); synchronisation; time-varying systems; almost regulated output synchronization error; controller state exchange; heterogeneous directed networks; heterogeneous time-varying networks; low-and-high gain method; multiagent system; nonintrospective agents; purely decentralized time-invariant protocol; time-varying graphs; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Heterogeneous networks; Laplace equations; Network topology; Protocols; Synchronization; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference (ACC), 2015

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8685-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2015.7171148

Filename

7171148