Leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems under fixed and switching topologies

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 209-217

  Ni, Wei ^a   Cheng, Daizhan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Algebraic graph theory; Consensus; Lyapunov inequality; Multi agent systems; Riccati inequality

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; HIGHER ORDER; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; LOCAL INFORMATION; LYAPUNOV INEQUALITY; RICCATI INEQUALITY; SWITCHING INTERACTION TOPOLOGIES; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY;

ALGEBRA; GRAPH THEORY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; LYAPUNOV METHODS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950022516     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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