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Distributed consensus of delayed multi‐agent systems with nonlinear dynamics via intermittent control
Author(s) -
Ye Zhiyong,
Chen Yungen,
Zhang Hua
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian journal of control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1934-6093
pISSN - 1561-8625
DOI - 10.1002/asjc.1172
Subject(s) - multi agent system , nonlinear system , control theory (sociology) , consensus , protocol (science) , computer science , network topology , control (management) , topology (electrical circuits) , mathematics , computer network , artificial intelligence , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics , combinatorics
In this paper, a distributed consensus of delayed multi‐agent systems with a leader is investigated, and a nonlinear protocol is proposed based on intermittent control. A notable feature of this protocol is to address second‐order consensus problems for delayed nonlinear multi‐agent systems, where agents can only communicate with each other over some disconnected time intervals. Some sufficient conditions to guarantee the consensus over fixed and switching topologies are derived. It is shown that second‐order consensus for delayed multi‐agent system with intermittent control can be achieved if the time delay is less than a critical value and the communication time duration is larger than a threshold value. In addition, some numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the theoretical results.