Coordination for Networks of Dynamic Agents with Time-Varying Delays英文文献资料.docVIP

Wireless Sensor Network, 2010, 2, 141-147 doi:10.4236/wsn.2010.22019 Published Online February 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn/). Coordination for Networks of Dynamic Agents with Time-Varying Delays Hongwang Yu , Baoshan Zhang , Yufan Zheng 1 1 2 School of Mathematics and Statistic, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shangha, China 1 2 E-mail: {yuhongwang, zbs}@, {yfzheng, yuh@ Received November 21, 2009; revised December 5, 2009; accepted December 7, 2009 Abstract This paper is devoted to the study of the coordinate stability in undirected networks of dynamical agents with time-varying transmission delay. Neighbor-based rules are adopted to realize local control strategies for these continuous-time autonomous agents. Sufficient and necessary conditions in terms of linear matrix ine- qualities (LMIs) are given to guarantee the coordination of dynamical agents. Numerical simulations are given and demonstrate that our theoretical results are effective. Keywords: Multi-Agent System, Time-Varying Delay, Consensus Protocol, Laplacian 1. Introduction networks with both switching topology and time-delay is studied in [7,8], where the dynamics order of each agent is one. A leader-following consensus problem for multi- ple agent with communication transmission time delays is discussed in [9], where the dynamics of each agent is second order. Motivated by [7] and [9], we study the coordinated stability of multi-agent systems where the dynamics of each agent is second order in this paper. The communi- cation transmission time delays of multi-agent systems are varying and the interconnection graph of the agents is undirected. The method used in this paper is partly mo- tivated by the work of [10,11]. The coordinate stability of multi-agent systems is an im- portant rese