Consensus Analysis and Synthesis of Networked Multi-Agent Systems
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description: As one of the major ﬁelds, Networked Multi-Agent Systems (NMAS), which deals with the study of how network architecture and interactions among network components inﬂuence global control goals, has received widely attention across science and engineering. A usual problem that appears in the coordination of NMAS is the consensus problem, i.e., given initial values (scalar or vector) of agents, establish conditions under which through local interactions and computations, the agents asymptotically achieve some kind of agreement, such as control of mobile vehicles, information processing in sensor networks and design of distributed algorithms. Researches mainly focused on the analysis of NMAS consensus in the past, the interconnection topology and some consensus algorithms were given in advance and the relevant research objective was to verify whether the states of all agents converge to some common value. Agents with single integrator dynamics, double integrator dynamics or more complicated dynamics are the present research emphasis. In addition, most of present research activities focus on theoretical study of consensus problems based on relatively simple simulation experiments, but it will still be a key element of research in the future. Although it is more complicated to consider consensus problems for a team of agents with more complex nonlinear dynamics and even heterogenous dynamics, such kind of problems are very important. To the best of our knowledge,there are few eﬀective results on this topic. Usually, no common equilibrium for all agents exists even if each isolated agent has an equilibrium, but an NMAS with non-identical agents may still exhibit some consensus behaviors which are from being fully understood. Certain reasonable and satisfactory boundedness of state motion errors between diﬀerent agents can be taken as useful consensus properties. This thesis focuses on the global consensus problems of NMAS consisting of identical or non-identical agent dyna…
abstract: As one of the major ﬁelds, Networked Multi-Agent Systems (NMAS), which deals with the study of how network architecture and interactions among network components inﬂuence global control goals, has received widely attention across science and engineering. A usual problem that appears in the coordination of NMAS is the consensus problem, i.e., given initial values (scalar or vector) of agents, establish conditions under which through local interactions and computations, the agents asymptotically achieve some kind of agreement, such as control of mobile vehicles, information processing in sensor networks and design of distributed algorithms. Researches mainly focused on the analysis of NMAS consensus in the past, the interconnection topology and some consensus algorithms were given in advance and the relevant research objective was to verify whether the states of all agents converge to some common value. Agents with single integrator dynamics, double integrator dynamics or more complicated dynamics are the present research emphasis. In addition, most of present research activities focus on theoretical study of consensus problems based on relatively simple simulation experiments, but it will still be a key element of research in the future. Although it is more complicated to consider consensus problems for a team of agents with more complex nonlinear dynamics and even heterogenous dynamics, such kind of problems are very important. To the best of our knowledge,there are few eﬀective results on this topic. Usually, no common equilibrium for all agents exists even if each isolated agent has an equilibrium, but an NMAS with non-identical agents may still exhibit some consensus behaviors which are from being fully understood. Certain reasonable and satisfactory boundedness of state motion errors between diﬀerent agents can be taken as useful consensus properties. This thesis focuses on the global consensus problems of NMAS consisting of identical or non-identical agent dyna…
author: Zhong, Weisong
language: eng
keywords: Computer networks
date published: 2012
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:39:38Z
provider: University of South Wales
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of South Wales