Consensus of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems with Intermittent Communication

Xu Lü (), Meng Shuanghe () and Chen Liang ()
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Xu Lü: School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing210094, China
Meng Shuanghe: School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing210094, China
Chen Liang: School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing210094, China

Journal of Systems Science and Information, 2017, vol. 5, issue 4, 328-342

Abstract: This paper studies consensus of a class of heterogeneous multi-agent systems composed of first-order and second-order agents with intermittent communication. For leaderless multi-agent systems, we propose a distributed consensus algorithm based on the intermittent information of neighboring agents. Some sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems in terms of bilinear matrix inequalities (BMIs). Meanwhile, the relationship between communication duration and each control period is sought out. Moreover, the designed algorithm is extended to leader-following multi-agent systems without velocity measurements. Finally, the effectiveness of the main results is illustrated by numerical simulations.

Keywords: intermittent communication; multi-agent systems; consensus; bilinear matrix inequality (BMI); velocity measurements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.21078/JSSI-2017-328-15

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