Stability of a class of linear switching systems with applications to two consensus problems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1420-1430

  Su, Youfeng ^a   Huang, Jie ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Consensus; linear systems; multi agent systems; switched systems

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; DYNAMIC GRAPH; KRONECKER PRODUCT; LEADER FOLLOWING; LINEAR SWITCHED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); SOLVABILITY CONDITIONS; STABILITY RESULTS; SWITCHED SYSTEM; SYSTEM MATRICES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861728808     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2176391     Document Type: Article

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