Controllability of switching networks of multi-agent systems

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 630-644

  Liu, Bo ^a,b   Chu, Tianguang ^b   Wang, Long ^b   Zuo, Zhiqiang ^c   Chen, Guanrong ^d   Su, Housheng ^e  

^a NORTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

controllability; multi agent system; nearest neighbor rule; switching topology; time delay

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTROLLABILITY CONDITION; EXTERNAL INPUT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NEAREST NEIGHBOR RULE; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR COMMUNICATION; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY; THEORETICAL RESULT;

CONTROLLABILITY; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TIME DELAY; TOPOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857490269     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1713     Document Type: Article

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