Reaching an optimal consensus: Dynamical systems that compute intersections of convex sets

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 610-622

  Shi, Guodong ^a   Johansson, Karl Henrik ^a   Hong, Yiguang ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Connectivity conditions; distributed optimization; intersection computation; multi agent systems; optimal consensus

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATION PROBLEMS; CONNECTIVITY CONDITIONS; CONTINUOUS-TIME; CONTINUOUS-TIME DYNAMICS; CONVEX SET; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED OPTIMIZATION; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; INVARIANT SET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NON-SMOOTH ANALYSIS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL CONSENSUS; OPTIMAL SOLUTION SETS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SOLUTION SET; TIME VARYING;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; SET THEORY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84874614056     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2215261     Document Type: Article

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