Second-order consensus seeking in multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics over random switching directed networks

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1595-1607

  Li, Huaqing ^a   Liao, Xiaofeng ^a   Lei, Xinyu ^a   Huang, Tingwen ^b   Zhu, Wei ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Directed spanning tree; local consensus; multi agent systems; nonlinear dynamics; random switching; second order consensus; time delay ( free) coupling

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED GRAPHS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; TIME DELAY;

ANALYTICAL ESTIMATIONS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DIRECTED SPANNING TREES; LOCAL CONSENSUS; ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITION; RANDOM SWITCHING; SECOND ORDERS; TIME-DELAY COUPLING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878393697     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2012.2226507     Document Type: Article

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