Consensus of linear multi‐agent systems subject to communication delays and switching networks. (25th January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lu, Maobin; Liu, Lu
• Other Names: He Jianping guestEditor.; La Hung (Jim) guestEditor.; Chen Zhiyong guestEditor.; Ge Shuzhi Sam guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: International journal of robust and nonlinear control. Volume 27:Number 9(2017)
• Page Start: 1379
• Page End: 1396
• Publication Date: 2017-01-25
• Subjects: consensus -- multi‐agent systems -- communication delay -- switching network; Automatic control -- Periodicals; Control theory -- Periodicals; Nonlinear systems -- Periodicals; 629.836
• DOI: 10.1002/rnc.3750
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-8923

Abstract

Summary: In this paper, the consensus problem for linear multi‐agent systems subject to nonuniform time‐varying communication delays and jointly connected switching networks is investigated. Two cases, known communication delay and unknown communication delay, are considered, respectively. For each case, both distributed dynamic state feedback control law and distributed dynamic output feedback control law are proposed. By establishing some technical lemmas, it is shown that the proposed distributed control laws can solve the consensus problem, respectively. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.