TY - JOUR
T1 - Exponential consensus for hierarchical multi-Agent systems with switching topology and inter-layer communication delay
AU - Duan, Zhaoxia
AU - Zhai, Guisheng
AU - Xiang, Zhengrong
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant no. 61273120, by the Japan Ministry of Education, Sciences and Culture under Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C) 21560471 and 25420451, and by the Postgraduate Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province (grant no. KYLX-0378).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
PY - 2016/2/26
Y1 - 2016/2/26
N2 - This study studies the exponential state consensus problem for hierarchical multi-Agent dynamical systems with switching topology and inter-layer communication delay. A Lyapunov function is introduced to quantify the total disagreement among the nodes of a hierarchical multi-Agent system. By using the stability theory of switched system and graph theory of hierarchical network topology, delay dependent sufficient conditions are proposed to achieve the exponential hierarchical average consensus with the average dwell time of the switching law larger than a minimum bound. Illustrative examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
AB - This study studies the exponential state consensus problem for hierarchical multi-Agent dynamical systems with switching topology and inter-layer communication delay. A Lyapunov function is introduced to quantify the total disagreement among the nodes of a hierarchical multi-Agent system. By using the stability theory of switched system and graph theory of hierarchical network topology, delay dependent sufficient conditions are proposed to achieve the exponential hierarchical average consensus with the average dwell time of the switching law larger than a minimum bound. Illustrative examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84959292554&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84959292554&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1049/iet-cta.2015.0548
DO - 10.1049/iet-cta.2015.0548
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84959292554
SN - 1751-8644
VL - 10
SP - 451
EP - 460
JO - IET Control Theory and Applications
JF - IET Control Theory and Applications
IS - 4
ER -