Decentralized stabilizability and formation control of multi-agent systems with antagonistic interactions. (June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Xianzhu; Ji, Zhijian; Hou, Ting; Yu, Haisheng
• Is Part Of: ISA transactions. Volume 89(2019)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2019-06
• Subjects: Stabilizability -- Formation control -- Multi-agent systems -- Antagonistic interactions; Engineering instruments -- Periodicals; Engineering instruments; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2018.12.011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0019-0578

Abstract

Abstract: This paper studies the stabilizability and formation control problems of multi-agent systems with antagonistic interactions. The agents run a bipartite consensus protocol using a signed Laplacian which is different from the conventional one. By taking advantage of the proposed structurally balanced independent strongly connected components(SBiSCCs) of the signed graph, a sufficient and necessary condition is presented to solve the decentralized stabilizability problem of multi-agent systems with antagonistic interactions. Besides, formation control is considered and the sufficient and necessary condition is provided by applying the proposed results. Several simulations are given to illustrate the theoretical results. Highlights: SBiSCCs based necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the rank of Laplacian. Stabilizability condition and the decentralized control are proposed. A necessary and sufficient condition is provided for formation control.