Consensus of multi-agent systems with unbounded time-varying delays

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2396-2401

  Liu, Xiwei ^a,b   Lu, Wenlian ^c   Chen, Tianping ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; delay; graph Laplacian; unbounded

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONTINUOUS-TIME EQUATIONS; DELAY; GRAPH LAPLACIAN; INFINITE TIME; STATIC NETWORKS; TIME-VARYING DELAY; UNBOUNDED;

GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 77957716891     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2054770     Document Type: Article

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