Open AccessGroup consensus control for discrete‐time heterogeneous first‐ and second‐order multi‐agent systems
Author(s) -
Feng Yuanzhen,
Zheng Wei Xing
Publication year - 2018
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.2017.0728
Subject(s) - multi agent system , graph theory , consensus , computer science , uniform consensus , group (periodic table) , directed graph , discrete time and continuous time , distributed computing , graph , transformation (genetics) , topology (electrical circuits) , network topology , order (exchange) , control theory (sociology) , control (management) , mathematics , theoretical computer science , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer network , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , statistics , organic chemistry , finance , combinatorics , gene
This study investigates the group consensus problem for heterogeneous multi‐agent systems composed of discrete‐time first‐ and second‐order agents. Two kinds of distributed group consensus protocols are proposed based on the information of the agent itself and its neighbours. Model transformation is introduced and some sufficient conditions are derived for heterogeneous multi‐agent systems with directed communication topology to reach group consensus by utilising the matrix theory and the graph theory. Finally, simulation examples are given to validate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.