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Hybrid Communication and Control in Multi-Agent Networks

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This chapter focuses on hybrid communication and control and its application to second-order linear/nonlinear multi-agent networks. In terms of the impulsive control, a distributed hybrid control based on impulsive communications is presented, and an index function is introduced to assess the performance of agents. It is shown that by synthesizing the coupling weights and the average impulsive intermittence, multi-agent networks can achieve guaranteed performance consensus. Furthermore, the consensus performance of multi-agent networks with second-order nonlinear dynamics is investigated. In light of consensus performance, we resort to a hybrid impulsive and switching control scheme to develop an improved updating rule such that agents can realize consensus and meet some global performance guarantee simultaneously. Simulations are further presented to illuminate the obtained theoretical results.

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  1. College of Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Zhi-Hong Guan

  2. Wuhan National Laboratory For Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Bin Hu

  3. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

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Guan, ZH., Hu, B., Shen, X.(. (2019). Hybrid Communication and Control in Multi-Agent Networks. In: Introduction to Hybrid Intelligent Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02161-0_8

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