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Leaderless output sign consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems over signed graphs

Yihan Meng

School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

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Shimin Wang,

Shimin Wang

orcid.org/0000-0002-3713-8738

Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Hongwei Zhang,

Corresponding Author

Hongwei Zhang

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School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Correspondence Hongwei Zhang, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, People's Republic of China.

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Yihan Meng,

Yihan Meng

School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

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Shimin Wang,

Shimin Wang

orcid.org/0000-0002-3713-8738

Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Hongwei Zhang,

Corresponding Author

Hongwei Zhang

[email protected]

orcid.org/0000-0002-8818-0207

School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Correspondence Hongwei Zhang, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, People's Republic of China.

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First published: 06 October 2022

https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.6381

Citations: 1

Funding information: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 61773322

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Abstract

This article studies leaderless output sign consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems over directed signed graphs. The multi-agent system can synchronize in the same sign concurrently with time-varying values without an explicit leadership. Established on the assumption that the adjacency matrix of the signed graph is eventually positive, an autonomous system is constructed by utilizing a distributed sign observer. This autonomous system is not pre-specified but arises from the graph topology and the initial states of the agents. In light of this distributed sign observer, we propose a state feedback controller and an output feedback controller that drive the outputs of such multi-agent systems to reach sign consensus.

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