Squared‐down passivity–based state synchronization of homogeneous continuous‐time multiagent systems via static protocol in the presence of time‐varying topology

Abstract

Summary This paper studies state synchronization of homogeneous multiagent systems (MAS) via a static protocol with partial‐state coupling in the presence of a time‐varying communication topology, which includes general time‐varying graphs as well as switching graphs. If the agents are squared‐down passive or squared‐down passifiable (via static output feedback or static input feedforward), then a static protocol can be designed for balanced, time‐varying graphs. Moreover, this static protocol works for arbitrary switching directed graphs if the agents are squared‐down minimum phase with relative degree one. The static protocol is designed for each agent such that state synchronization is achieved without requiring exact knowledge about the time‐varying network.

Leader-Following Consensus of Stochastic Perturbed Multi-Agent Systems via Variable Impulsive Control and Comparison System Method

“…The consensus (or synchronization) topic of multi-agent systems (MAS) has obtained wide attention due to the potential and meaningful application in past few years, especially in the fields of mathematics, physics, engineering, biology, and so forth [1][2][3][4][5]. In general, the consensus scheme of MAS consists of leaderless [6][7][8] and leaderfollowing schemes [9][10][11]. For the leader-following consensus, it requires other nodes to follow the leader asymptotically.…”