Open AccessExploiting Asynchrony in Multi-agent Con-sensus to Change the Agreement Point
Author(s) -
Diego Pellitero,
David Sánchez,
Mario Hernández,
Álvaro Serrano
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
advances in distributed computing and artificial intelligence journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2255-2863
DOI - 10.14201/adcaij2018744552
Subject(s) - asynchrony (computer programming) , asynchronous communication , computer science , set (abstract data type) , point (geometry) , multi agent system , consensus , distributed computing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , computer network , geometry , programming language
Reaching agreement by consensus is fundamental to the operation of distributed systems, such as sensor networks, social networks or multi-robot networks. In real systems, the resource limitations available to individual agents and communication delays typically result in asynchronous control models of discreet time for consensus. In this paper, we model the problem where a set of agents arrive at a consensus on the value of a variable of interest, being guided by one of them.