Robust Adaptive Average Consensus Over a Time-Varying and Nonbalanced Environment

Average consensus is a fundamental problem in distributed control that still lacks a general solution when the agents face nonideal conditions and uncertain environments. This note contributes to the topic by addressing average consensus in networks of agents that: 1) interact over a time-varying an...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on automatic control 2024-08, Vol.69 (8), p.5577-5583
Main Authors: Gallegos, Javier A., Schlotterbeck, Constanza, Nunez, Felipe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive control
average consensus
Delays
distributed control
Dynamical systems
Multi-agent systems
Noise measurement
Quantization (signal)
Robust control
Robustness
Uncertainty
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Summary:Average consensus is a fundamental problem in distributed control that still lacks a general solution when the agents face nonideal conditions and uncertain environments. This note contributes to the topic by addressing average consensus in networks of agents that: 1) interact over a time-varying and nonbalanced environment and 2) face parametric and nonparametric disturbances. It is shown that an adaptive strategy, which combines surplus variables and virtual agents, effectively solves the exact average consensus problem in this nonideal and uncertain setup. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the potential of the proposed approach.
ISSN:0018-9286
1558-2523
DOI:10.1109/TAC.2024.3367655