Kybernetika 54 no. 1, 61-78, 2018

Asynchronous sampling-based leader-following consensus in second-order multi-agent systems

Zhengxin Wang, Yuanzhen Feng, Cong Zheng, Yanling Lu and Lijun PanDOI: 10.14736/kyb-2018-1-0061

Abstract:

This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem of second-order multi-agent systems with directed topologies. By employing the asynchronous sampled-data protocols, sufficient conditions for leader-following consensus with both constant velocity leader and variable velocity leader are derived. {Leader-following quasi-consensus can be achieved in multi-agent systems when all the agents sample the information asynchronously.} Numerical simulations are provided to verify the theoretical results.

Keywords:

multi-agent systems, consensus, leader-following, asynchronous sampling

Classification:

93D05, 93C57

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