Consensus in multi-agent systems with second-order dynamics and sampled data

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2137-2146

  Yu, Wenwu ^a,b   Zhou, Lei ^a,b   Yu, Xinghuo ^a,b   Lü, Jinhu ^c   Lu, Renquan ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^d HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Algebraic graph theory; Consensus region; Coupling gain; Multi agent system; Sampling period; Second order consensus

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; CONSENSUS PROTOCOLS; CONSENSUS REGION; LAPLACIAN MATRICES; SAMPLING PERIOD; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER DYNAMICS; SIMULATION EXAMPLE;

GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84884247967     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2012.2235074     Document Type: Article

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