Structural controllability of multi-agent networks: Robustness against simultaneous failures

• Published in: Automatica (Oxford) Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 3149 - 3157
• Main Authors: Rahimian, Mohammad Amin, Aghdam, Amir G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adaptative systems; Agents (artificial intelligence); Applied sciences; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Control system analysis; Control theory. Systems; Controllability; Exact sciences and technology; Expert systems; Failure; Graph theory; Information retrieval. Graph; Links; Multi-agent networks; Networks; Robustness; Software; Theoretical computing; Multi-agent networks; Controllability; Graph theory; Leadership; Necessary and sufficient condition; Graph flow; Data flow; Data flow processing; Multiagent system; Leader election; Information flow; Fluence graph; Robustness; Digraph; Reliability; Directed graph

In this paper, structural controllability of a leader–follower multi-agent system with multiple leaders is studied from a graph-theoretic point of view. The problem of preservation of structural controllability under simultaneous failures in both the communication links and the agents is investigate...