Average consensus in directed networks of multi-agents with uncertain time-varying delays

作者：Wang Zhao Xia; Du Da Jun^*; Fei Min Rui

来源：Acta Automatica Sinica, 2014, 40(11): 2602-2608.

DOI：10.3724/SP.J.1004.2014.02602

• Average consensus
• Communication delays
• Directed network
• Jensen's inequality
• Reciprocally convex
• Switching topology
• Time varying
• Time-varying delay

This paper investigates the average consensus problem in directed networks of multi-agent systems with uncertain time-varying delays. Fixed and switching topologies that are kept weakly connected and balanced are firstly analyzed. The original system is then transformed into a reduced dimension model. Based on Jensen's inequality and reciprocally convex approach, suffcient conditions for average consensus are further presented. Specially, a less conservative upper bound of time-varying communication delays is derived in comparison with the existing results. Numerical examples confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 出版日期2014
• 单位上海大学