Necessary and sufficient conditions for consensus of double-integrator multi-agent systems with measurement noises

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1958-1963

  Cheng, Long ^a   Hou, Zeng Guang ^a   Tan, Min ^a   Wang, Xu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Average consensus; double integrator; mean square; measurement noise; Multi agent systems (MASs)

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONSENSUS; AVERAGE-CONSENSUS PROTOCOL; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTROL GAINS; DOUBLE-INTEGRATOR; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; INITIAL POSITION; INITIAL VELOCITIES; LINEAR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION; MEAN SQUARE; MEASUREMENT NOISE; STATE TRANSITION MATRIX; STRONGLY CONNECTED; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TIME VARYING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; RANDOM VARIABLES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051538010     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2139450     Document Type: Article

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