A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination

As a distributed solution to multi-agent coordination, consensus or agreement problems have been studied extensively in the literature. This paper provides a survey of consensus problems in multi-agent cooperative control with the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regardin...

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Published in2005 American Control Conference pp. 1859 - 1864 vol. 3
Main Authors Wei Ren, Beard, R.W., Atkins, E.M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Air traffic control
Automatic control
Control systems
Mobile robots
Multiagent systems
Protocols
Topology
Tree graphs
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Wireless sensor networks
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9780780390997
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DOI10.1109/ACC.2005.1470239

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Abstract As a distributed solution to multi-agent coordination, consensus or agreement problems have been studied extensively in the literature. This paper provides a survey of consensus problems in multi-agent cooperative control with the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regarding consensus seeking under both time-invariant and dynamically changing information exchange topologies are summarized. Applications of consensus protocols to multiagent coordination are investigated. Future research directions and open problems are also proposed.
AbstractList As a distributed solution to multi-agent coordination, consensus or agreement problems have been studied extensively in the literature. This paper provides a survey of consensus problems in multi-agent cooperative control with the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regarding consensus seeking under both time-invariant and dynamically changing information exchange topologies are summarized. Applications of consensus protocols to multiagent coordination are investigated. Future research directions and open problems are also proposed.
Author Atkins, E.M.
Wei Ren
Beard, R.W.
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Multiagent systems
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Unmanned aerial vehicles
Wireless sensor networks
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