Consensus tracking of multi-agent systems with lipschitz-type node dynamics and switching topologies

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 499-511

  Wen, Guanghui ^a   Duan, Zhisheng ^b   Chen, Guanrong ^c   Yu, Wenwu ^a,d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus tracking; multi agent system; nonsingular M matrix; switching directed topology; synchronization

Indexed keywords

LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION TOPOLOGIES; DIRECTED SPANNING TREES; DIRECTED TOPOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; FEEDBACK GAIN MATRIX; M-MATRICES; STRONGLY CONNECTED; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84988268452     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2268091     Document Type: Article

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