Author(s)

Fenglan Sun¹, Rui Wang¹, Yongfu Li², Feng Liu³

¹Research Center of System Theory and Application, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China.
²College of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China.
³School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

This paper investigates the flocking problem in multi-agent system with time-varying delay and a virtual leader. Each agent here is subject to nonlinear dynamics. For the system, the corresponding algorithm with time-varying delay is proposed. Under the assumption that the initial network is connected, it is proved that the distance between agents is in the desired distance. The theoretical deduction shows that the stable flocking motion is achieved.

Flocking, Time-Varying Delay, Nonlinear Dynamics, Multi-Agent System, Virtual Leader

Sun, F. , Wang, R. , Li, Y. and Liu, F. (2016) Flocking for Leader-Following Multi-Agent Systems with Time-Varying Delay. Intelligent Control and Automation, 7, 9-15. doi: 10.4236/ica.2016.71002.