Stochastic consensus in directed networks of agents with non-linear dynamics and repairable actuator failures

IET Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1583-1593

  Wen, G ^a   Duan, Z ^a   Li, Z ^b   Chen, G ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR FAILURES; CLOSED-LOOP; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; CONVERGENCE RATES; COUPLING STRENGTHS; DIRECTED NETWORK; MEAN-SQUARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; SPANNING TREE; STATE-DEPENDENT NOISE; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRONGLY CONNECTED;

LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84867766995     PISSN: 17518644     EISSN: 17518652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2011.0156     Document Type: Article

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