On topology and dynamics of consensus among linear high-order agents

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1831-1842

  Wieland, Peter ^a   Kim, Jung Su ^b   Allgöwer, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

consensus; graphs; interconnection topology; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES; CONSENSUS; GRAPH LAPLACIAN; GRAPHS; HIGH-ORDER; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGY; LINEAR MODEL; WEIGHTED GRAPH;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84860390402     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721003658202     Document Type: Article

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