Network-based leader-following consensus for distributed multi-agent systems

作者：Ding, Lei^*; Han, Qing-Long; Guo, Ge

来源：Automatica, 2013, 49(7): 2281-2286.

DOI：10.1016/j.automatica.2013.04.021

• Leader-following consensus
• Network-based consensus
• Distributed multi-agent systems
• Stability
• Interval time-varying delays

This paper is concerned with network-based leader-following consensus for a distributed multiagent system. A network-based consensus control protocol under a directed graph is proposed. With this protocol, each agent in the distributed multi-agent system can be remotely controlled via a communication network. A new delay-dependent stability criterion for an error system is derived by constructing a novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional with digraph information. Then, employing this stability criterion, a delay-dependent sufficient condition for the existence of network-based consensus controllers, which ensure that the following-agent's states can reach an agreement on the leader's state, is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.

• 出版日期2013-7
• 单位大连海事大学