Consensus of multi-agent systems in directed networks with nonuniform time-varying delays

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1607-1613

  Sun, Yuan Gong ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; Intermittent communication; Multiagent system; Nonuniform time varying delay; Tree type transformation

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONTINUOUS TIME; DATA PACKET DROPOUT; DIRECTED NETWORK; INTERMITTENT COMMUNICATION; NEW APPROACHES; NONUNIFORM; NONUNIFORM TIME-VARYING DELAY; SIMULATION RESULT; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME-VARYING DELAY; TREE-TYPE TRANSFORMATION;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 67949091023     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2009.2017963     Document Type: Article

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