TY - JOUR
T1 - IEEE Access Special Section Editorial
T2 - Recent Developments in Consensus Problems for Complex Networked Systems
AU - Shang, Yilun
AU - Li, Dequan
AU - Peng, Zhaoxia
AU - Heydari, Ali
AU - Turkoglu, Kamran
AU - Thunberg, Johan
PY - 2018/11/9
Y1 - 2018/11/9
N2 - Consensus problems for complex networked systems composed of interconnected interacting agents have received considerable attention in recent years partly due to the ever-increasing number of applications in various areas, such as swarm dynamics, smart grids, sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, telerobotics, and the military. The design of consensus protocols takes advantage of nearest neighbor interaction rules, which renders a framework of distributed multi-agent systems so that the group of dynamic agents can reach an agreement or consensus on certain desired cooperative tasks. The growing complexity of the communication topology and agents’ dynamics along with the great demands on system performance brings numerous challenges including consensus under switching topologies, interdependent networks, time-varying transmission delays, parameter variations, uncertainties, nonlinearities, etc. Moreover, deep links between network science and control theory have been gradually revealed within the last couple of years, which shed light into the consensus problem and make it a rather promising direction.
AB - Consensus problems for complex networked systems composed of interconnected interacting agents have received considerable attention in recent years partly due to the ever-increasing number of applications in various areas, such as swarm dynamics, smart grids, sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, telerobotics, and the military. The design of consensus protocols takes advantage of nearest neighbor interaction rules, which renders a framework of distributed multi-agent systems so that the group of dynamic agents can reach an agreement or consensus on certain desired cooperative tasks. The growing complexity of the communication topology and agents’ dynamics along with the great demands on system performance brings numerous challenges including consensus under switching topologies, interdependent networks, time-varying transmission delays, parameter variations, uncertainties, nonlinearities, etc. Moreover, deep links between network science and control theory have been gradually revealed within the last couple of years, which shed light into the consensus problem and make it a rather promising direction.
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2875364
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2875364
M3 - Editorial
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 6
SP - 60993
EP - 60995
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -