On average consensus in directed networks of agents with switching topology and time delay

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1947-1956

  Qin, Jiahu ^a,b   Gao, Huijun ^a   Zheng, Wei Xing ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

average consensus; balanced graph; multi agent systems; spanning tree; switching topology

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONSENSUS; BALANCED GRAPHS; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; COUPLING DELAYS; DIRECTED NETWORK; LAPLACIAN MATRICES; MATRIX THEORY; NEW RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POSITIVE DEFINITENESS; QUADRATIC FORM; SPANNING TREE; STRONGLY CONNECTED; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUMBER THEORY; TIME DELAY; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 79955849677     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721003802271     Document Type: Article

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