Distributed consensus of multi-agent systems with input constraints: A model predictive control approach

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 825-834

  Cheng, Zhaomeng ^a   Zhang, Hai Tao ^a   Fan, Ming Can ^a   Chen, Guanrong ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Consensus; input constraint; predictive control; switching interaction network

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; DIRECTED SPANNING TREES; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; INPUT CONSTRAINTS; INTERACTION NETWORKS; MODEL-PREDICTIVE CONTROL APPROACH; PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85027950338     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: 15580806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2367575     Document Type: Article

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