Finite-time consensus of multi-agent systems with continuous time-varying interaction topology

This study investigates the finite-time consensus problem of multi-agent systems with continuous time-varying interaction topology. A distributed consensus protocol is presented to make the multi-agent system locally or globally reach consensus in finite time. The protocol is also used to analyze finite-time consensus of the multi-agent systems with fixed topology or modified switching topology. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.