Open AccessLeader‐following consensus of second‐order non‐linear multi‐agent systems with directed intermittent communication
Author(s) -
Huang Na,
Duan Zhisheng,
Zhao Yu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet control theory and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.059
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1751-8652
pISSN - 1751-8644
DOI - 10.1049/iet-cta.2013.0565
Subject(s) - multi agent system , network topology , topology (electrical circuits) , consensus , computer science , control theory (sociology) , spanning tree , order (exchange) , class (philosophy) , uniform consensus , tree (set theory) , tracking (education) , distributed computing , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer network , discrete mathematics , psychology , mathematical analysis , control (management) , finance , economics , pedagogy , combinatorics
This study addresses leader‐following consensus problems for multi‐agent systems with second‐order non‐linear dynamics, under the assumption that each agent can only communicate with its neighbouring agents intermittently and the communication topology does not keep strongly connected or contain a spanning tree all along. Firstly, a class of distributed consensus algorithms are designed only based on the relative local intermittent information. Notions of completely and partly intermittent communication are proposed. Some sufficient conditions are derived for achieving consensus tracking under a general fixed topology with completely and partly intermittent communication. Then, as an extension, leader‐following consensus tracking is studied under time‐varying intermittent communication topologies. Finally, the effectiveness of the main results is illustrated by numerical simulations.