Bauso, D., Giarré, L. and Pesenti, R. (2005) Distributed consensus in networks of dynamic agents. In: Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005, December 12-15, 2005, Seville, Spain. , 7054 - 7059. ISBN 0780395689
Abstract
Stationary and distributed consensus protocols for a network of n dynamic agents under local information is considered. Consensus must be reached on a group decision value returned by a function of the agents' initial state values. As a main contribution we show that the agents can reach consensus if the value of such a function computed over the agents' state trajectories is time invariant. We use this basic result to introduce a protocol design rule allowing consensus on a quite general set of values. Such a set includes, e.g., any generalized mean of order p of the agents' initial states. We demonstrate that the asymptotical consensus is reached via a Lyapunov approach. Finally we perform a simulation study concerning the alignment maneuver of a team of unmanned air vehicles. © 2005 IEEE.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2007 IEEE. Translations and content mining are permitted for academic research only. Personal use is also permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2016 10:46 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2016 10:54 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2005.1583298 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/CDC.2005.1583298 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89776 |