Abstract
This study investigates the group consensus problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems composed of discretetime first- and second-order agents. Two kinds of distributed group consensus protocols are proposed based on the information of the agent itself and its neighbours. Model transformation is introduced and some sufficient conditions are derived for heterogeneous multi-agent systems with directed communication topology to reach group consensus by utilising the matrix theory and the graph theory. Finally, simulation examples are given to validate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 753-760 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IET Control Theory and Applications |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Apr 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2018.
Keywords
- discrete-time systems
- graph theory
- group theory