Constructing consensus controllers for networks with identical general linear agents

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1237-1256

  Yang, Tao ^a   Roy, Sandip ^a   Wan, Yan ^b   Saberi, Ali ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

agreement; consensus; decentralized control; multi agent systems; synchronization

Indexed keywords

AGREEMENT; CONSENSUS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; HIGH-GAIN; LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT; MULTIINPUT; TIME INVARIANTS; TIME VARYING;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 79959336073     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1641     Document Type: Article

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