On the cluster consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 517-523

  Chen, Yao ^a   Lü, Jinhu ^a,b   Han, Fengling ^b   Yu, Xinghuo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster consensus; Markov chain; Multi agent systems; Nonnegative matrix

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER CONSENSUS; DISCRETE-TIME; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; MARKOV CHAIN; NATURAL PHENOMENA; NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958216681     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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