Average Consensus in Multiagent Systems with the Problem of Packet Losses When Using the Second-Order Neighbors' Information. (10th April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yu, Mei; Li, Lijuan; Xie, Guangming; Shi, Hong
• Other Names: Su Housheng Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Mathematical problems in engineering. Volume 2014(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-04-10
• Subjects: Engineering mathematics -- Periodicals; 510.2462
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/304126
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1024-123X

Abstract

Abstract : This paper mainly investigates the average consensus of multiagent systems with the problem of packet losses when both the first-order neighbors' information and the second-order neighbors' information are used. The problem is formulated under the sampled-data framework by discretizing the first-order agent dynamics with a zero-order hold. The communication graph is undirected and the loss of data across each communication link occurs at certain probability, which is governed by a Bernoulli process. It is found that the distributed average consensus speeds up by using the second-order neighbors' information when packets are lost. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.