scholarly journals Bipartite multi-tracking in MASs with intermittent communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-625
Author(s):  
Da Huang ◽  
Xiaolin Fan ◽  
Cheng Hu ◽  
Haijun Jiang

In this paper, a novel cluster consensus problem related with the bipartition of the graph of multi-agent systems (MASs) is studied. To track the virtual leaders and reach the expected consensus, a new type of pinning consensus protocol with aperiodic intermittent effects is designed according to the graph structure, and a new kind of aperiodic intermittent communication is defined. Moreover, the protocol is applied to construct networked systems with intermittent communications. Lyapunov functional is applied to get sufficient conditions for solving the multi-tracking problem under a dual subsystem framework. Finally, some numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiying Ma ◽  
Xiao Jia ◽  
Ning Cai ◽  
Jianxiang Xi

In this paper, adaptive guaranteed-performance consensus control problems for multiagent systems with an adjustable convergence speed are investigated. A novel adaptive guaranteed-performance consensus protocol is proposed, where the communication weights can be adaptively regulated. By the state space decomposition method and the stability theory, sufficient conditions for guaranteed-performance consensus are obtained and the guaranteed-performance cost is determined. Moreover, the lower bound of the convergence coefficient for multiagent systems is deduced, which is linearly adjustable approximately by changing the adaptive control gain. Finally, simulation examples are introduced to demonstrate theoretical results.


Author(s):  
Xinzhi Liu ◽  
Kexue Zhang ◽  
Wei-Chau Xie

This paper studies the consensus problem of networked multi-agent systems (NMASs). Distributed delays are considered in the agent dynamics, and we propose a new type of impulsive consensus protocols that also takes into account of distributed delays. A novel method is developed to estimate the relation between the agent states at the impulsive instants and the distributed-delayed agent states, which helps to use the Razumikhin-type stability result to investigate the consensus of NMASs with distributed-delayed impulses. Sufficient conditions are established to guarantee that the network consensus can be reached via the proposed consensus protocols with fixed and switching topologies, respectively. Numerical simulations are also provided to demonstrate our theoretical results.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Cui-Qin Ma ◽  
Yun-Bo Zhao ◽  
Wei-Guo Sun

Event-triggered bipartite consensus of single-integrator multi-agent systems is investigated in the presence of measurement noise. A time-varying gain function is proposed in the event-triggered bipartite consensus protocol to reduce the negative effects of the noise corrupted information processed by the agents. Using the state transition matrix, Ito^ formula, and the algebraic graph theory, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the proposed protocol to yield mean square bipartite consensus. We find that the weakest communication requirement to ensure the mean square bipartite consensus under event-triggered protocol is that the signed digraph is structurally balanced and contains a spanning tree. Numerical examples validated the theoretical findings where the system shows no Zeno behavior.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (16) ◽  
pp. 4369-4381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baojie Zheng ◽  
Xiaowu Mu

The formation-containment control problems of sampled-data second-order multi-agent systems with sampling delay are studied. In this paper, we assume that there exist interactions among leaders and that the leader’s neighbours are only leaders. Firstly, two different control protocols with sampling delay are presented for followers and leaders, respectively. Then, by utilizing the algebraic graph theory and matrix theory, several sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure that the leaders achieve a desired formation and that the states of the followers converge to the convex hull formed by the states of the leaders, i.e. the multi-agent systems achieve formation containment. Furthermore, an explicit expression of the formation position function is derived for each leader. An algorithm is provided to design the gain parameters in the protocols. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained theoretical results.


2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1521-1528
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Hong Zhou ◽  
Zhi-Wei Liu ◽  
Wenshan Hu ◽  
Wei Wang

In this paper, a new kind of intermittent control is proposed to study consensus problems of multi-agent systems with second-order dynamics. In particular, we consider the case that the information transmission occurs at sampling instants and the velocity information is not available for feedback. The proposed control only regulates the velocity of agents in a given sequence of disconnected time intervals, called activated intervals, after sampling instants. Remarkably, both the sampling and activated intervals are not required to be identical. By adopting algebraic graph theory and nonnegative matrix, some sufficient conditions are obtained for guaranteeing the consensus of the multi-agent systems under the switching topology. Finally, the numerical examples are included to illustrate the theoretical results.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhengxin Wang ◽  
Yang Cao

This paper studies the consensus problem for a high-order multi-agent systems without or with delays. Consensus protocols, which only depend on the own partial information of agents and partial relative information with its neighbors, are proposed for consensus and quasi-consensus, respectively. Firstly, some lemmas are presented, and then a necessary and sufficient condition for guaranteeing the consensus is established under the consensus protocol without delays. Furthermore, communication delays are considered. Some necessary and sufficient conditions for solving quasi-consensus problem with delays are obtained. Finally, some simulations are given to verify the theoretical results.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 155014771772251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weizheng Huang ◽  
Wenfeng Zheng ◽  
Lipo Mo

In this article, the distributed [Formula: see text] composite-rotating consensus problem is concerned for a class of second-order multi-agent systems. First, based on local state feedback and communication feedback, a distributed control algorithm is proposed. Then, sufficient conditions are derived in order to make all agents reach a composite-rotating consensus with the desired [Formula: see text] performance. Finally, the simulations are given to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 828-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Xiao Zhang ◽  
Li Ding ◽  
Zhi-Wei Liu

In the paper, schooling problems based on containment control in multi-agent systems that have static or dynamic leaders under directed and undirected communication topologies are investigated. We propose a periodic impulsive containment control algorithm to realize schooling in multi-agent systems. Both ideal and quantized relative state measurements are considered under this framework. Some necessary and sufficient conditions, which depend on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix that is associated with the communication graph, the impulsive period as well as the gain parameters, are obtained to realize the containment control of schooling. Finally, some numerical simulations are illustrated to verify the theoretical results.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Ricardo Almeida ◽  
Ewa Girejko ◽  
Snezhana Hristova ◽  
Agnieszka Malinowska

This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem in continuous-time multi-agent networks with communications/updates occurring only at random times. The time between two consecutive controller updates is exponentially distributed. Some sufficient conditions are derived to design the control law that ensures the leader-following consensus is asymptotically reached (in the sense of the expected value of a stochastic process). The numerical examples are worked out to demonstrate the effectiveness of our theoretical results.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
Lü Xu ◽  
Shuanghe Meng ◽  
Liang Chen

AbstractThis paper studies consensus of a class of heterogeneous multi-agent systems composed of first-order and second-order agents with intermittent communication. For leaderless multi-agent systems, we propose a distributed consensus algorithm based on the intermittent information of neighboring agents. Some sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems in terms of bilinear matrix inequalities (BMIs). Meanwhile, the relationship between communication duration and each control period is sought out. Moreover, the designed algorithm is extended to leader-following multi-agent systems without velocity measurements. Finally, the effectiveness of the main results is illustrated by numerical simulations.


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