Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.

The robustness of consensus in single integrator multi-agent systems (MAS) to coupling delays and switching topologies is investigated. It is shown that consensus is reached for arbitrarily large constant, time-varying, or distributed delays if consensus is reached without delays. This delay robustn...

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Main Authors: Münz, U, Papachristodoulou, A, Allgöwer, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011
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description The robustness of consensus in single integrator multi-agent systems (MAS) to coupling delays and switching topologies is investigated. It is shown that consensus is reached for arbitrarily large constant, time-varying, or distributed delays if consensus is reached without delays. This delay robustness holds under the weakest possible connectivity assumptions on the underlying graph, i.e., as long as the graph is uniformly quasi-strongly connected and switches with a dwell-time. The proof is based on a contraction argument and allows to remove technical assumptions that were used in previous publications. Moreover, the result also applies to non-scalar single integrators, an important extension toward consensus and rendezvous in higher dimensions. © 2006 IEEE.
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spelling oxford-uuid:97740707-8000-4491-a6ea-c7f2e8f86f122022-03-26T23:59:39ZConsensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:97740707-8000-4491-a6ea-c7f2e8f86f12EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Münz, UPapachristodoulou, AAllgöwer, FThe robustness of consensus in single integrator multi-agent systems (MAS) to coupling delays and switching topologies is investigated. It is shown that consensus is reached for arbitrarily large constant, time-varying, or distributed delays if consensus is reached without delays. This delay robustness holds under the weakest possible connectivity assumptions on the underlying graph, i.e., as long as the graph is uniformly quasi-strongly connected and switches with a dwell-time. The proof is based on a contraction argument and allows to remove technical assumptions that were used in previous publications. Moreover, the result also applies to non-scalar single integrators, an important extension toward consensus and rendezvous in higher dimensions. © 2006 IEEE.
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title Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.
title_full Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.
title_fullStr Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.
title_full_unstemmed Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.
title_short Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems With Coupling Delays and Switching Topology.
title_sort consensus in multi agent systems with coupling delays and switching topology
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