Almost sure consensus for multi-agent systems with two level switching

作者：Song, Yang^*; Yang, Zhenhong; Yang, Taicheng; Hou, Weiyan

来源：Information Sciences, 2016, 370: 554-564.

DOI：10.1016/j.ins.2016.03.042

• Multi-agent systems
• Consensus
• Agent switching
• Topology switching
• Dwell time

In most literatures on the consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs), the agents considered are time-invariant. However in many cases, for example in airplane formation, the agents have switching dynamics and the connections between them are also changing. This is called two-level switching in this paper. We study almost sure (AS) consensus for a class of two-level switching systems. At the low level of agent dynamics, switching is deterministic and controllable. The upper level topology switching is random and follows a Markov chain. The transition probability of the Markov chain is not fixed, but varies when low level dynamics changes. For this class of MASs, a sufficient condition for AS consensus is developed in this paper.

• 出版日期2016-11-20
• 单位郑州大学; 上海大学