Consensus of Discrete-Time Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems with Partial Information Transmission

Abstract:

This paper investigates the consensus problem of multi-agent systems with partial information transmission under an undirected topology. A distributed consensus protocol is proposed with local velocity feedback and the position information from neighbors. The consensus problem is converted to the stabilization problem by transforming the original systems into a reduced order state system. Then, by using graph theory and Jurys stability test, a sufficient and necessary condition for consensus of multi-agent systems is derived. An example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the presented results.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 457-458)
• Pages: 1069-1073
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.457-458.1069
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Lei Ding
• Keywords: Communication Topology, Consensus, Distributed Control, Multi-Agent System (MAS)

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