Necessary and sufficient conditions for consensusability of linear multi-agent systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1263-1268

  Ma, Cui Qin ^a   Zhang, Ji Feng ^b  

^a QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus protocol; Consensusability; Consensusability condition; Linear time invariant (LTI) system; Multi agent system (MAS)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; DYNAMIC STRUCTURE; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; LINEAR TIME INVARIANT SYSTEMS; LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT SYSTEM; RESEARCH AREAS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TECHNICAL NOTES;

INVARIANCE; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952225673     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2042764     Document Type: Article

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