Leaderless and leader-following consensus with communication and input delays under a directed network topology

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-88

  Meng, Ziyang ^a   Ren, Wei ^b   Cao, Yongcan ^b   You, Zheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication and input delays; consensus tracking; directed network graph; leaderless consensus; multiagent system

Indexed keywords

BOUNDEDNESS CONDITIONS; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; CONSENSUS TRACKING; DIRECTED NETWORK; DIRECTED NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FIRST-ORDER; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INPUT DELAYS; LEADERLESS CONSENSUS; LYAPUNOV THEOREMS; NYQUIST STABILITY CRITERION; SECOND ORDERS; SIMULATION RESULT; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME DOMAIN;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; STABILITY CRITERIA;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 79551687561     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2010.2045891     Document Type: Article

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