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This chapter mainly studies the distributed consensus problem in multi-agent systems with intermittent communication. First, consensus for second-order multi-agent systems with a fixed directed topology and synchronously intermittent communication constraints is investigated. It is proved that consensus in the second-order multi-agent systems with synchronously intermittent communication can be reached if the general algebraic connectivity of the communication topology is larger than a threshold value and the mobile agents communicate with their neighbors frequently enough as the network evolves with time. Then, the consensus problem is investigated for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with synchronously intermittent measurements under strongly connected topology. By virtue of the Lyapunov stability analysis, it is proven that consensus in such multi-agent systems can be achieved exponentially under some suitable conditions. Furthermore, the results are extended to the case where the multi-agent systems have inherent delayed nonlinear dynamics and the interaction graph is balanced. Finally, consensus tracking problem is addressed for multi-agent systems with Lipschitz-type node dynamics and asynchronously intermittent communication.
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This work is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China through Grant Nos. 61722303 and 61673104, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China through Grant No. BK20170079, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.
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Wen, G., Yu, W., Duan, Z., Wang, P. (2022). Consensus of Multi-agent Systems with Intermittent Communication and Its Extensions. In: Tian, YC., Levy, D.C. (eds) Handbook of Real-Time Computing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-251-7_20
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