Abstract
We study the problem of consensus emergence in multi-agent systems via external feedback controllers. We consider a set of agents interacting with dynamics given by a Cucker-Smale type of model, and study its consensus stabilization by means of centralized and decentralized control configurations. We present a characterization of consensus emergence for systems with different feedback structures, such as leader-based configurations, perturbed information feedback, and feedback computed upon spatially confined information. We characterize consensus emergence for this latter design as a parameter-dependent transition regime between self-regulation and centralized feedback stabilization. Numerical experiments illustrate the different features of the proposed designs.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4071-4094 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series A |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Sep 2015 |
Keywords
- Consensus emergence
- Cucker-smale model
- Decentralized control
- Feedback stabilization
- Multi-agent systems