Distributed higher order consensus protocols in multiagent dynamical systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1924-1932

  Yu, Wenwu ^a,b   Chen, Guanrong ^c   Ren, Wei ^d   Kurths, Jürgen ^e,f   Zheng, Wei Xing ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d Utah State University   (United States)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algebraic graph theory; consensus region; higher order consensus; leader follower control; multiagent system

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE; CONSENSUS REGION; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; HIGHER-ORDER; LEADER FOLLOWER CONTROLS; MULTI-AGENT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79957505847     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2106032     Document Type: Article

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