A sufficient condition for convergence of sampled-data consensus for double-integrator dynamics with nonuniform and time-varying communication delays

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2417-2422

  Qin, Jiahu ^a,b   Gao, Huijun ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Double integrator agents; sampled data consensus; spanning tree; time varying communication delays

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; INTERACTION MATRICES; SAMPLED-DATA; SAMPLING PERIOD; SECOND ORDERS; SPANNING TREE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TECHNICAL NOTES; TIME VARYING; VELOCITY DAMPING;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 84865682632     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2188425     Document Type: Article

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