Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4947997 | Neurocomputing | 2017 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
This paper investigates the consensus problem of large-scale multi-agent systems (MASs) with a directed communication topology, especially for the MAS whose topology contains small strongly connected components. A sufficient and necessary consensus criterion is proposed through the combination of two methods. Firstly, a communication searching algorithm is utilized to make sure that each agent obtains the local topology information of strongly connected component where it is located. Secondly, a state-linear-transformation decomposes the consensus problem into a group of stability problems based on the strongly connected components. The corresponding consensus criterion reduces the computational complexity. Moreover, according to the consensus criterion, a distributed design procedure of gain matrices is proposed based on the homotopy method.
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Authors
Xiaojun Qu, Yangzhou Chen, A. Yu. Aleksandrov, Guiping Dai,