Consensus of multi-agent systems with an active leader and asymmetric adjacency matrix

Abstract— Multi-agent systems (MAS) have received an increasing attention over the past few years. Here an MAS is a system consisted of multiple interacting intelligent agents. This paper further investigates the consensus of MAS with an active leader and asymmetric adjacency matrix. In particular, the state of the active leader is changing and unmeasured. Under some suitable conditions, we have proved that: i) each agent of MAS can follow the active leader if the input of the active leader is known beforehand; ii) the tracking error of MAS can be effectively estimated if the input of the active leader is unknown beforehand. Moreover, numerical simulations are then given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed theorems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CDC
• Authors: Wanli Guo, Shihua Chen, Jinhu Lu, Xinghuo Yu
• Keywords: Active Leader, Asymmetric Adjacency Matrix, CDC 2009, Control Systems, Multi-agent Systems