Consensus in hierarchical multi-agent dynamical systems with low-rank interconnections: analysis of stability and convergence rates

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5192-5197

  Hara, Shinji ^a   Shimizu, Hikaru ^a   Kim, Tae Hyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF STABILITY; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CONVERGENCE CONDITIONS; CROSS-LAYER; CYCLIC PURSUIT; EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; GENERAL MODEL; INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE; LOW-RANK INTERCONNECTION; MULTI-AGENT; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SMALL GAIN; STABILITY DEGREE; SYSTEM MATRICES; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449641205     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2009.5160572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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