Sampled-data based consensus of continuous-time multi-agent systems with time-varying topology

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1226-1231

  Gao, Yanping ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consensus; multi agent systems; sampled data control; second order agents; time varying topology

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTROLLER GAIN; MULTIPLE AGENTS; SAMPLED-DATA; SAMPLED-DATA CONTROL; SAMPLING PERIOD; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER DYNAMICS; SPANNING TREE; TECHNICAL NOTES; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME VARYING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955926125     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2112472     Document Type: Article

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