An overview of recent progress in the study of distributed multi-agent coordination

Y Cao, W Yu, W Ren, G Chen - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews some main results and progress in distributed multi-agent coordination,
focusing on papers published in major control systems and robotics journals since 2006 …

Overview: Collective control of multiagent systems

S Knorn, Z Chen, RH Middleton - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collective control of a multiagent system is concerned with designing strategies for a group
of autonomous agents operating in a networked environment. The aim is to achieve a global …

Event-triggered communication and control of networked systems for multi-agent consensus

C Nowzari, E Garcia, J Cortés - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This article provides an introduction to event-triggered coordination for multi-agent average
consensus. We provide a comprehensive account of the motivations behind the use of event …

Time-varying formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles: Theories and applications

X Dong, B Yu, Z Shi, Y Zhong - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation control analysis and design problems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm
systems to achieve time-varying formations are investigated. To achieve predefined time …

Designing fully distributed consensus protocols for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs

Z Li, G Wen, Z Duan, W Ren - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for multi-
agent systems with general linear dynamics and directed communication graphs. Existing …

[图书][B] Cooperative control of multi-agent systems: a consensus region approach

Z Li, Z Duan - 2017 - books.google.com
Distributed controller design is generally a challenging task, especially for multi-agent
systems with complex dynamics, due to the interconnected effect of the agent dynamics, the …

Distributed adaptive control for consensus tracking with application to formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots

W Wang, J Huang, C Wen, H Fan - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the output consensus problem of tracking a desired trajectory
for a class of systems consisting of multiple nonlinear subsystems with intrinsic mismatched …

Consensus of multi-agent systems with general linear and Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics using distributed adaptive protocols

Z Li, W Ren, X Liu, M Fu - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical brief considers the distributed consensus problems for multi-agent systems
with general linear and Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics. Distributed relative-state consensus …

Optimal design for synchronization of cooperative systems: state feedback, observer and output feedback

H Zhang, FL Lewis, A Das - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note studies synchronization of identical general linear systems on a digraph
containing a spanning tree. A leader node or command generator is considered, which …

Distributed consensus of linear multi-agent systems with adaptive dynamic protocols

Z Li, W Ren, X Liu, L Xie - Automatica, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of multi-agent systems with general
continuous-time linear dynamics for both the cases without and with a leader whose control …