The number of leaders needed for consensus

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3745-3750

  Liu, Zhixin ^a   Han, Jing ^a   Hu, Xiaoming ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consensus; Leader follower; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONSENSUS; LEADER-FOLLOWER; LOWER BOUNDS; NEIGHBOR GRAPH; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950802784     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2009.5399766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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