Cooperative output regulation with application to multi-agent consensus under switching network

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 864-875

  Su, Youfeng ^a   Huang, Jie ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; linear systems; multi agent systems; output regulation; switching network topology

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED CONTROL; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT; DYNAMIC STATE; LEADER FOLLOWING; LIMITED INFORMATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); OBSERVER NETWORK; OUTPUT FEEDBACK CONTROLS; OUTPUT REGULATION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBSERVABILITY; STATE FEEDBACK; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84862817364     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2011.2179981     Document Type: Article

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