Almeida R, Girejko E, Hristova S, Malinowska A. On Leader-Following Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems with Discrete Updates at Random Times.
ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020;
22:E650. [PMID:
33286422 PMCID:
PMC7517185 DOI:
10.3390/e22060650]
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Abstract
This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem in continuous-time multi-agent networks with communications/updates occurring only at random times. The time between two consecutive controller updates is exponentially distributed. Some sufficient conditions are derived to design the control law that ensures the leader-following consensus is asymptotically reached (in the sense of the expected value of a stochastic process). The numerical examples are worked out to demonstrate the effectiveness of our theoretical results.
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