Necessary and sufficient conditions for mean square consensus under Markov switching topologies

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 178-186

  Miao, Guoying ^a   Xu, Shengyuan ^a   Zou, Yun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

consensus; Markov; multi agent systems; time delays

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SET; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MARKOV; MARKOV SWITCHING; MEAN SQUARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); SECOND ORDERS; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; SPANNING TREE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TIME DELAY;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84869789431     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2011.598961     Document Type: Article

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