On Convergence Rate of Leader-Following Consensus of Linear Multi-Agent Systems With Communication Noises

• Published in: IEEE transactions on automatic control Vol. 61; no. 11; pp. 3586 - 3592
• Main Authors: Cheng, Long, Wang, Yunpen, Ren, Wei, Hou, Zeng-Guang, Tan, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Asymptotic properties; Attenuation; Automatic control; Convergence; Convergence rate; Gain; leader-following consensus; Mean square values; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; Noise; noises; Protocols; Switches; Time-domain analysis; time-varying gain; Topology; Transient analysis

This note further studies the previously proposed consensus protocol for linear multi-agent systems with communication noises. Each agent is allowed to have its own time-varying gain to attenuate the effect of communication noises. Therefore, the common assumption that all agents have the same noise...