Group consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with fixed topologies
International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
ISSN: 1756-378X
Article publication date: 9 November 2015
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamical group consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with fixed topologies.
Design/methodology/approach
The tool used in this paper to model the topologies of multi-agent systems is algebraic graph theory. The matrix theory and stability theory are applied to research the group consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with fixed topologies. The Laplace transform and Routh criterion are utilized to analyze the convergence properties of heterogeneous multi-agent systems.
Findings
It is discovered that the dynamical group consensus for heterogeneous multi-agent systems with first-order and second-order agents can be achieved under the reasonable hypothesizes. The group consensus condition is only relied on the nonzero eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian matrix.
Originality/value
The novelty of this paper is to investigate the dynamical group consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with first-order and second-order agents and fixed topologies and obtain a sufficient group consensus condition.
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Citation
Liu, C., Zhou, Q. and Hu, X. (2015), "Group consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with fixed topologies", International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 294-311. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJICC-03-2015-0009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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