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Consensus of a Kind of Dynamical Agents in Network with Time Delays
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International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences·Volume 03 (2010)·Pages 893–898·Published 23 November 2010·DOI10.4236/ijcns.2011.311121
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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.
KeywordsMulti-Agent SystemTime DelayConsensus Protocol
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