Consensus in multi-agent systems: a review

A Amirkhani, AH Barshooi - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
This paper provides a review of the consensus problem as one of the most challenging
issues in the distributed control of the multi-agent systems (MASs). In this survey, firstly, the …

A survey on recent progress in control of swarm systems

B Zhu, L Xie, D Han, X Meng, R Teo - Science China Information Sciences, 2017 - Springer
It has been witnessed that swarm systems are superior to individual agents in performing
complicated tasks. In recent years, new results in some branches of control for swarm …

Consensus tracking of multi-agent systems with Lipschitz-type node dynamics and switching topologies

G Wen, Z Duan, G Chen, W Yu - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed consensus tracking is addressed in this paper for multi-agent systems with
Lipschitz-type node dynamics. The main contribution of this work is solving the consensus …

Containment of higher-order multi-leader multi-agent systems: A dynamic output approach

G Wen, Y Zhao, Z Duan, W Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note addresses the distributed containment control problem for a linear multi-
leader multi-agent system with a directed communication topology. A new class of …

Network-based leader-following consensus of nonlinear multi-agent systems via distributed impulsive control

W He, G Chen, QL Han, F Qian - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the problem of network-based leader-following consensus of
nonlinear multi-agent systems via distributed impulsive control. First, by taking network …

Leader‐follower fixed‐time consensus for multi‐agent systems with unknown non‐linear inherent dynamics

M Defoort, A Polyakov, G Demesure… - IET Control Theory & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the design of fixed‐time consensus for first‐order multi‐agent systems
with unknown inherent non‐linear dynamics. A distributed control protocol, based on local …

Leader–follower consensus of time-varying nonlinear multi-agent systems

X Zhang, L Liu, G Feng - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
A distributed consensus protocol is developed for a class of homogeneous time-varying
nonlinear multi-agent systems in this paper. The agents dynamics are supposed to be in the …

Distributed consensus of multi‐agent systems with general linear node dynamics and intermittent communications

G Wen, Z Duan, W Ren, G Chen - International Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Without assuming that the mobile agents can communicate with their neighbors all the time,
the consensus problem of multi‐agent systems with general linear node dynamics and a …

Fuzzy adaptive fixed-time consensus tracking control of high-order multiagent systems

L Zhang, B Chen, C Lin, Y Shang - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discusses the consensus tracking issue for multiagent systems, and the purpose
is to develop a fixed-time consensus proposal by fuzzy adaptive method. To this end, we first …

A mean square consensus protocol for linear multi-agent systems with communication noises and fixed topologies

L Cheng, ZG Hou, M Tan - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mean square consensus of linear multi-agent systems with communication noises is
studied in this note. Each agent is modeled by a continuous-time linear time-invariant …