A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination

By Wei Ren, R. Beard, Ella M. Atkins. Proceedings of the 2005, American Control Conference, 2005., 2005

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Communication‐based performance bounds in nonlinear coordinated control (2011, methodology): “A survey of linear consensus applications to multi-vehicle coordination is given in Reference [17], while References [18–21] give applications of the Kuramoto algorithm to heading control in coordinated multi-vehicle systems.”
Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control for Linear Multiagent Systems Under Switching Directed Network (2020, background): “In nature, the collective behavior of animal groups (such as ﬂocking of birds, swarming of ﬁshes, etc.) has shown that all individuals can make up a single entity to perform a cluster behavior by means of communications and distributed decisions [1]–[3].”
State consensus for multi-agent systems with switching topologies and time-varying delays (2006, background): “For more details, see the survey of the latest development (Ren et al. 2005) and references therein.”
Asynchronous Consensus in Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems With Switching Topology and Time-Varying Delays (2006, background): “ general communication structures [15], networks with nonlinear agreement protocols [16], and networks with switching topology and time-delays [6,7,8,16,17,18,19,20]. For more details, see the survey [21] and paper [22], where a theoretical frame-work for analysis of consensus algorithms for multi-a”
Stochastic consensus over noisy networks with Markovian and arbitrary switches (2010, background): “In distributed multi-agent systems, consensus problems have become one of most focussed research areas due to their wide application backgrounds; see the survey in Olfati-Saber, Fax, and Murray (2007) and Ren, Beard, and Atkins (2005).”
Finite-Time Distributed Consensus in Graphs with Time-Invariant Topologies (2007, background): “The topic of distributed consensus has also attracted the attention of the control community due to its applicability to tasks such as data fusion in sensor networks and coordination of multi-agent systems [ 2 ].”
Leader-Based Optimal Coordination Control for the Consensus Problem of Multiagent Differential Games via Fuzzy Adaptive Dynamic Programming (2015, background): “In addition, the overviews in [15] and [16] have summarized the recent achievements of coordination control for consensus problems of multiagent systems.”
Stochastic Consensus Seeking With Noisy and Directed Inter-Agent Communication: Fixed and Randomly Varying Topologies (2010, background): “…to their crucial role in such distributed systems, consensus problems and various closely related formulations have been intensively investigated in the context of multi-agent control systems and distributed computing [11], [19], [23]; see [22], [27] for a comprehensive survey on recent research.”
Consensus Conditions of Multi-Agent Systems With Time-Varying Topologies and Stochastic Communication Noises (2010, background): “Consensus of dynamic networks with stochastic communication noises is a common problem in distributed systems [ 19 ], and has attracted the attention of some researchers [20]‐[25].”
A Survey of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Formation: Performance, Formation Control, and Communication Capability (2021, background): “Furthermore, there are some surveys of multi-agents mainly focusing on control techniques while multi-agent can refer to multiple robots, vessels, or ﬂights without a speciﬁc environment [27], [28], [29].”
Global analysis of multi-agent systems based on Vicsek’s model (2007, methodology): “Inspired by the linearized Vicsek model, a type of consensus protocols, which may be called averaging protocol, is widely discussed [1], [4], [5], [7], [8], [9], [17].”
Leader-follower cooperative attitude control of multiple rigid bodies (2008, background): “A recent review of the various approaches for solving the consensus problem when the underlying dynamics are linear can be found in [15].”
Coordination and Consensus of Networked Agents with Noisy Measurements: Stochastic Algorithms and Asymptotic Behavior (2009, background): “A variety of consensus algorithms has been developed to deal with delayed measurements [5, 31, 34], dynamic topologies [34], or unreliable (on/off) communication links (see the survey [38]).”
Notes on averaging over acyclic digraphs and discrete coverage control (2006, background): “The works [12], [13] survey the results available for consensus problems using averaging algorithms.”
Data-Driven Optimal Consensus Control for Discrete-Time Multi-Agent Systems With Unknown Dynamics Using Reinforcement Learning Method (2017, background): “2542134 most interesting topics for multi-agent systems, which aims to design a distributed algorithm not only to make all the agents reach synchronization but also to minimize the energy cost under communication digraphs [6], [7].”
Analysis of consensus protocols with bounded measurement errors (2011, background): “, see [6, 7, 8] and the survey [9]) Compared to the large amount of papers analyzing how the topology of the communication graph affects the convergence properties of the consensus protocols, relatively few ones have addressed the behavior of consensus algorithms in presence of noisy measurements.”