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In this paper, a problem on controllability synthesis for dynamic multi-agent systems with high-order linear protocol is addressed. A particular scenario is considered, in which a given system should be adjusted to be controllable by the input information upon the created leaders, with optional communication links from the leaders to each follower vertex in the graph. It is shown that a single leader is always sufficient to satisfy the requirement for controllability of any given graph topology, so long as there are proper links between the leader and the followers.
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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 61263002, 61374054, 61174067 & 614722 00), and by Program for Young Talents of SEAC China (Grant [2013] 231).
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Cai, N., Cao, J. & Junaid Khan, M. A controllability synthesis problem for dynamic multi-agent systems with linear high-order protocol. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 12, 1366–1371 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-013-0374-4
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