Distributed consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with fixed and switching topologies

International Journal of Control

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1967-1976

  Zheng, Yuanshi ^a   Wang, Long ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

consensus; directed network; graph theory; heterogeneous multi agent system; switching topology

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; DIRECTED NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; FIRST-ORDER; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX; SECOND ORDERS; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY; THEORETICAL RESULT;

GRAPH THEORY; SWITCHING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867481303     PISSN: 00207179     EISSN: 13665820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2012.713986     Document Type: Article

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