Distributed Winner-Take-All in Dynamic Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on automatic control Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 577 - 589
• Main Authors: Li, Shuai, Zhou, MengChu, Luo, Xin, You, Zhu-Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Competitive control; consensus; Convergence; cooperative control; distributed control; dynamic networks; Heuristic algorithms; Mathematical model; Modeling; Network topology; networked control system; Networks; Protocols; Stability; Topology; winner-take-all

This paper is concerned with the winner-take-all (WTA) problem on networks. We propose the first distributed protocol to address this problem dynamically. This protocol features strong nonlinearity. Theoretical analysis reveals that it contains invariant quantities, symmetric solutions, and multiple...