DocumentCode
3550822
Title
A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination
Author
Ren, Wei ; Beard, Randal W. ; Atkins, Ella M.
Author_Institution
Space Syst. Lab., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
fYear
2005
fDate
8-10 June 2005
Firstpage
1859
Abstract
As a distributed solution to multi-agent coordination, consensus or agreement problems have been studied extensively in the literature. This paper provides a survey of consensus problems in multi-agent cooperative control with the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regarding consensus seeking under both time-invariant and dynamically changing information exchange topologies are summarized. Applications of consensus protocols to multiagent coordination are investigated. Future research directions and open problems are also proposed.
Keywords
mobile robots; multi-agent systems; agreement problems; consensus problems; mobile robots; multi-agent cooperative control; multi-agent coordination; Air traffic control; Automatic control; Control systems; Mobile robots; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Topology; Tree graphs; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
American Control Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005
ISSN
0743-1619
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9098-9
Electronic_ISBN
0743-1619
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ACC.2005.1470239
Filename
1470239
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