2019/12/12 by Kaile Chen, Wangli He, Chen, Kaile +5
Computer Science · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization #Optimization and Control (math.OC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.06019
openalex publication_date 2019/12/12 · openalex created_date 2019/12/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In leader-follower multi-agent networks with switching topologies, choosing a subset of agents as leaders is a critical step to achieve desired performances. In this paper, we concentrate on the problem of selecting a minimum-size set of leaders that ensure the tracking of a reference signal in a highorder linear multi-agent network with a set of given topology dependent dwell time (TDDT). First, we derive a sufficient condition that guarantees the states of all agents converging to an expected state trajectory. Second, by exploiting submodular optimization method, we formulate the problem of identifying a minimal leader set which satisfies the proposed sufficient condition. Third, we present an algorithm with the provable optimality bound to solve the formulated problem. Finally, several numerical examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the designed selection scheme.