DocumentCode
4090
Title
Swarm stability of linear time-invariant descriptor compartmental networks
Author
Ning Cai ; Khan, M. Junaid
Author_Institution
Coll. of Electr. Eng., Northwest Univ. for Nat., Lanzhou, China
Volume
9
Issue
5
fYear
2015
fDate
3 19 2015
Firstpage
793
Lastpage
800
Abstract
Swarm stability is studied for descriptor compartmental networks with linear time-invariant protocol. Compartmental network is a specific type of dynamical multi-agent system. Necessary and sufficient conditions for both consensus and marginal swarm stability are presented, which require a joint matching between the interactive dynamics of nearest neighbouring vertices and the Laplacian spectrum of the overall network topology. Three numerical instances are provided to verify the theoretical results.
Keywords
Laplace equations; invariance; multi-agent systems; network theory (graphs); stability; swarm intelligence; topology; Laplacian spectrum; consensus stability; descriptor compartmental networks; dynamical multiagent system; linear time-invariant protocol; nearest neighbouring vertices; necessary conditions; network topology; sufficient conditions; swarm stability;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Control Theory & Applications, IET
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1751-8644
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/iet-cta.2014.0130
Filename
7070618
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