On the control of multi-agent systems: A survey

F Chen, W Ren - Foundations and Trends® in Systems and …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Recent years have witnessed a trend to use networked multiple autonomous agents to
accomplish complex tasks arising from space-based applications, smart grids, and machine …

Leaderless and leader-following consensus with communication and input delays under a directed network topology

Z Meng, W Ren, Y Cao, Z You - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, time-domain (Lyapunov theorems) and frequency-domain (the Nyquist stability
criterion) approaches are used to study leaderless and leader-following consensus …

Leader-following consensus of second-order agents with multiple time-varying delays

W Zhu, D Cheng - Automatica, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, a leader-following consensus problem of second-order multi-agent systems
with fixed and switching topologies as well as non-uniform time-varying delays is …

A survey on distributed estimation and control applications using linear consensus algorithms

F Garin, L Schenato - Networked control systems, 2010 - Springer
In this chapter we present a popular class of distributed algorithms, known as linear
consensus algorithms, which have the ability to compute the global average of local …

Consensus of networked mechanical systems with communication delays: A unified framework

H Wang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note addresses the consensus problem of networked uncertain mechanical
systems which interact on directed graphs containing a spanning tree and are subjected to …

Asynchronous periodic event-triggered consensus for multi-agent systems

X Meng, L Xie, YC Soh - Automatica, 2017 - Elsevier
Towards a digital and flexible implementation of triggering conditions for multi-agent
systems, we propose a sampled-data framework with discrete-time controllers and event …

Consensus analysis and design for high-order linear swarm systems with time-varying delays

J Xi, Z Shi, Y Zhong - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2011 - Elsevier
Consensus analysis and design problems for high-order linear time-invariant swarm
systems with time-varying delays are dealt with. First, a consensus subspace and a …

Udwadia-Kalaba approach based distributed consensus control for multi-mobile robot systems with communication delays

C Wang, J Ji, Z Miao, J Zhou - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a distributed consensus algorithm for multi-mobile robot systems (MMRSs) with
communication delays is proposed based on the Udwadia-Kalaba (UK) approach. The key …

Decentralized adaptive attitude synchronization of spacecraft formation

H Min, S Wang, F Sun, Z Gao, J Zhang - Systems & Control Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper studies adaptive attitude synchronization of spacecraft formation with possible
time delay. By introducing a novel adaptive control architecture, decentralized controllers …

Analysis of consensus-based economic dispatch algorithm under time delays

C Zhao, X Duan, Y Shi - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Under consensus-based economic dispatch (ED) algorithm, multiple agents, which control
local generation units, cooperatively minimize the total generation cost subject to the …