New Results on Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems With Time-Varying Delays: A Cyclic Switching Technique

This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem of discrete-time multi-agent systems with time-varying delays by developing a new cyclic switching scheme. First, two delay-dependent cycle dwell time switching laws are proposed for the first time. Second, by the proposed cyclic switching la...

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Main Authors: Hui-Wei Liu, Tao Sun, Chong-Quan Zhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9461227/
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Summary:This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem of discrete-time multi-agent systems with time-varying delays by developing a new cyclic switching scheme. First, two delay-dependent cycle dwell time switching laws are proposed for the first time. Second, by the proposed cyclic switching laws and constructed Lyapunov functionals, new leader-following consensus criteria for discrete-time multi-agent systems with time-varying delays are derived in the form of linear matrix inequalities. Compared with the existing literature, the developed cyclic switching method not only greatly improves the upper bound of time-varying delays in the multi-agent system, but also gives the estimation of upper and lower bounds for dwell time of the system. Finally, some simulations for the leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems with time-varying delays are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed scheme.
ISSN:2169-3536