“…[1][2][3][4][5] In contrast with a single agent, MASs can complete some complex tasks in a more efficient manner since the agents in MASs can cooperate with each other to strengthen the capability in solving problems as well as the robustness. Among existing research works on MASs, the consensus control problem, as one of the most fundamental and significant hotspots, has attracted lots of attention and many techniques have been developed in this field such as neural-network-based control, [6][7][8] optimal control, [9][10][11] fuzzy control, 12,13 iterative learning control, [14][15][16] adaptive control [17][18][19][20] and so forth. Although there exist many works on consensus control, few papers quantitatively analyze the influences of MASs' inherent properties, which includes the model nonlinearity, the couplings within a single agent and among multiple agents, on convergence rate in the consensus process.…”