Tracking control for multi-agent consensus with an active leader and variable topology

Automatica

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1177-1182

  Hong, Yiguang ^a   Hu, Jiangping ^a   Gao, Linxin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active leader; Consensus; Multi agent systems; State estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATE ESTIMATION; TOPOLOGY;

ACTIVE LEADERS; CONSENSUS; CONTROL SCHEMES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646814428     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2006.02.013     Document Type: Article

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