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Consensus of the Second-order Multi-agent Systems under Asynchronous Switching with a Controller Fault

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Asynchronous switching differing from asynchronous consensus may hinder the system to reach a consensus. This receives very limited attention, especially when the multi-agent systems have a controller fault. In order to analyze the consensus in this situation, this paper studies the consensus of the second-order multi-agent systems under asynchronous switching with a controller fault. We convert the consensus problems under asynchronous switching into stability problems and obtain important results for consensus with the aid of linear matrix inequalities. An example is given to illustrate the effect of asynchronous switching on the consensus, and to validate the analytical results in this paper.

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  1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Dianhao Zheng

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Hongbin Zhang

  3. School of Information and Communication, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    J. Andrew Zhang

  4. School of Information and Communication, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611731, China

    Yang Li

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Recommended by Associate Editor Huaping Liu under the direction of Editor Hamid Reza Karimi. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China( Grant No.61374117)

Dianhao Zheng received the B.Eng. degree in electronic science and technology from China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, in 2009, and the M.S. degree in circuits and systems from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, in 2012. He is currently working towards two Ph.D. degrees in circuits and systems at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and in engineering and information technology at the University of Technology Sydney. He was an engineer from 2012 to 2014. His research interests include cooperative control, multi-agent systems, and switched systems.

Hongbin Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in aerocraft design from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China, in 1999, and the MEng and PhD degrees in circuits and systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He has been with the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, since 2002, where he is currently a professor. From August 2008 to August 2010, he has served as a research fellow with the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. His current research interests include intelligent control, autonomous cooperative control and integrated navigation.

J. Andrew Zhang received the B.Sc. degree from Xi’an JiaoTong University, China, in 1996, the M.Sc. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University, in 2004. Currently, Dr. Zhang is an associate Professor in School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He was a researcher with Data 61, CSIRO, Australia from 2010 to 2016, the Networked Systems, NICTA, Australia from 2004 to 2010, and ZTE Corp, Nanjing, China from 1999 to 2001. Dr. Zhang’s research interests are in the area of signal processing for wireless communications and sensing, and autonomous vehicular networks. He has won 4 best paper awards for his work. He is a recipient of CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multi-gigabit wireless communications.

Yang Li received the B.E. degree in electronic and information engineering and M.S. degree in circuits and systemsfrom University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in circuits and systems at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu. His research interests include fuzzy control and switched systems.

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Zheng, D., Zhang, H., Andrew Zhang, J. et al. Consensus of the Second-order Multi-agent Systems under Asynchronous Switching with a Controller Fault. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 17, 136–144 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-018-0058-1

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