Open AccessSynchronisation of linear continuous multi‐agent systems with switching topology and communication delay
Author(s) -
Xiang Ji,
Li Yanjun,
Wei Wei,
Yang Taicheng
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.2013.1042
Subject(s) - control theory (sociology) , network delay , bounded function , elmore delay , constant (computer programming) , topology (electrical circuits) , computer science , network topology , signal (programming language) , telecommunications network , transfer function , control (management) , propagation delay , mathematics , telecommunications , engineering , computer network , delay calculation , mathematical analysis , combinatorics , artificial intelligence , network packet , programming language , electrical engineering
A distributed dynamic output feedback control is designed by Scardovi and Sepulchre for the synchronisation of a network of identical linear systems, known as agents in literature. The design is based on some mild conditions allowing switching topology. However, it assumes that there is no time delay in signal transfer between the neighbouring agents. In this study, the authors extend their work to include known time delay in communications. Furthermore, the authors’ design has some special features: (i) the delay can be arbitrary and only need to be uniformly bounded by a constant; (ii) the conditions that time delay should be the same and sufficiently small in some literature are not required here; and (iii) no local buffer is required to store past data because of time‐delay effect.