Consensus of a Kind of Dynamical Agents in Network with Time Delays
Hongwang Yu, Baoshan Zhang
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DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2011.311121   PDF    HTML     4,272 Downloads   7,634 Views  

Abstract

This paper investigates the collective behavior of a class of dynamic agents with time delay in transmission networks. It is assumed that the agents are Lyapunov stable distributed on a plane and their location coordinates are measured by some remote sensors with certain error and transmitted to their neighbors. The control protocol is designed on the transmitted information by a linear decentralized law. The coordination of dynamical agents is shown under the condition that the error is small enough. Numerical simulations demonstrate that our theoretical results are effective.

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H. Yu and B. Zhang, "Consensus of a Kind of Dynamical Agents in Network with Time Delays," International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 11, 2010, pp. 893-898. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2011.311121.

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