Consensus seeking in multiagent systems under dynamically changing interaction topologies

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 655-661

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Graph theory; Information consensus; Multiagent systems; Switched systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOBILE ROBOTS; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; INFORMATION CONSENSUS; SWITCHED SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 20344399896     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2005.846556     Document Type: Article

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