Agents design for distributed consensus over networks of fixed and switching topologies

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5815-5820

  Wang, Jing ^a   Elia, Nicola ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Cooperative control; Reusable agents; Robust control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONTROL; TOPOLOGY;

AVERAGE CONSENSUS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONSENSUS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DESIGN APPROACHES; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; SMALL GAIN THEOREM; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 77950812010     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2009.5400327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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