Autonomous Synchronization of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems

Title: Autonomous Synchronization of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
Creator: Yan, Yamin; Chen, Zhiyong; Middleton, Richard H.
Relation: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Vol. 8, Issue 2, p. 940-950
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCNS.2020.3042593
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: This article formulates a new type of synchronization problem for heterogeneous multiagent systems (MASs), called autonomous synchronization. In this problem, neither the synchronized agent dynamics nor the synchronized states are specified a priori, instead, they are autonomously determined by the inherent properties and the initial states of agents, thus providing an MAS with more degrees of adaptability and higher synchronization efficiency. To achieve autonomous synchronization, a novel dynamics update law and a synchronizing control law are proposed and the sufficient solvability conditions are explicitly revealed. The results are supported by rigorous theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, in both continuous-time and discrete-time settings.
Subject: autonomous synchronization; heterogeneous sytems; multiagent systems (MASs); control systems
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1475342
Identifier: uon:49519
Identifier: ISSN:2325-5870
Language: eng
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