Consensus Problem of Delayed Linear Multi-agent Systems

Cheng-Lin Liu is an associate professor at Jiangnan University. His research interests include distributed coordination control of multi-agent systems, networked control system, iterative learning control. He has published over 30 Journal papers in recent years, of which 15 are international and SCI journal papers. He won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010. He has been invited to be a peer reviewer for international journals, including: Automatica, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, IET Control Theory and Applications, Journal of the Franklin Institute, International Journal of Systems Science, etc. Fei Liu is a professor at Jiangnan University. His research interests include advanced control theory and applications, batch process control engineering, distributed control systems and coordination control of multi-agent systems. He has been invited to be a peer reviewer for international journals, including: IEEE Trans on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Trans on Industrial Electronics, Journal of Process Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, etc.

Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Consensus analysis of delayed multi-agent systems.- Difference-compensated consensus algorithms.- Predictor-based consensus algorithms.- Conclusions.