On the Network Index of MAS with Layered Lattice-like Structures of Multiple Vertex-Related Parameters

Abstract

In this article, a robust index named first-order network coherence (FONC) for the multi-agent systems (MASs) with layered lattice-like structure is studied via the angle of the graph spectra theory. The union operation of graphs is utilized to construct two pairs of non-isomorphic layered lattice-like structures, and the expression of the index is acquired by the approach of Laplacian spectra, then the corresponding asymptotic results are obtained. It is found that when the cardinality of the node sets of coronary substructures with better connectedness tends to infinity, the FONC of the whole network will have the same asymptotic behavior with the central lattice-like structure in the considered classic graph frameworks. The indices of the networks were simulated to illustrate the the asymptotic results, as described in the last section.