Stationary consensus of asynchronous discrete-time second-order multi-agent systems under switching topology

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 986-994

  Qin, Jiahu ^a,b   Yu, Changbin ^a,c   Hirche, Sandra ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asynchronous consensus; multi agent systems; second order dynamics

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS CONSENSUS; ASYNCHRONY; COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; DISCRETE TIME SYSTEM; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX; PRODUCT PROPERTY; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER DYNAMICS; STATE INFORMATION; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY; TIME SEQUENCES;

CLOCKS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867975448     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2012.2210430     Document Type: Article

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