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Wang, Jingyao (Wang, Jingyao.) | Qiao, Junfei (Qiao, Junfei.) (Scholars:乔俊飞) | Wen, Guanghui (Wen, Guanghui.) | Duan, Zhisheng (Duan, Zhisheng.) | Huang, Tingwen (Huang, Tingwen.)

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Abstract:

This article considers the rendezvous problem of a group of heterogeneous second-order agents subject to information transmission delays. A major challenge to construct a fully distributed rendezvous protocol is to deal with these delays, which are assumed to be nonuniform and time-varying. Inspired by the fact that a large enough damping coefficient can improve the robustness of a second-order agent against external disturbance, we overcome the above challenge by studying the impact of the damping coefficient on the rendezvous problem. To theoretically analyze the impact, one type of static rendezvous protocol is first proposed and employed. It is interesting to find that agents can reach rendezvous under the static protocol if the damping coefficient is large enough, even though the duration of the time-delay is uncertain. This fact indicates that a large damping coefficient can make the static protocol be robust to the uncertainty of time-delay, which is consistent with the common sense. Then, we apply this impact to deal with the uncertainty introduced by the nonuniform time-varying information delays. To fully apply this impact, we adopt an adaptive approach to making the damping coefficient automatically adapt with the changes of the time-delay. Hence, two classes of fully distributed and adaptive rendezvous protocols are designed, which do not need the global information of the entire communication graph or the value of these time-delays at all. The difference between two classes of protocols is whether it can realize low-frequency learning or not. Finally, some numerical simulations are performed on multiple robots to illustrate the analytical results.

Keyword:

heterogeneous multiagent systems (MASs) nonuniform time-varying information delays Uncertainty Delays Directed communication graph Protocols Symmetric matrices Robots fully distributed and adaptive rendezvous protocols robustness of the rendezvous algorithm Damping Robustness

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Wang, Jingyao]Xiamen Univ, Dept Automat, Xiamen 361000, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Wang, Jingyao]Xiamen Univ, Shenzhen Res Inst, Shenzhen 518000, Guangdong, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Qiao, Junfei]Beijing Univ Technol, Coll Elect Informat & Control Engn, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Qiao, Junfei]Beijing Univ Technol, Beijing Key Lab Computat Intelligence & Intellige, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Wen, Guanghui]Southeast Univ, Sch Math, Nanjing 210096, Peoples R China
  • [ 6 ] [Duan, Zhisheng]Xiamen Univ, Dept Automat, Xiamen 361000, Peoples R China
  • [ 7 ] [Duan, Zhisheng]Peking Univ, Dept Mech & Engn Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
  • [ 8 ] [Huang, Tingwen]Texas A&M Univ Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Reprint Author's Address:

  • [Wen, Guanghui]Southeast Univ, Sch Math, Nanjing 210096, Peoples R China

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Source :

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN CYBERNETICS-SYSTEMS

ISSN: 2168-2216

Year: 2021

Issue: 8

Volume: 51

Page: 4848-4857

8 . 7 0 0

JCR@2022

ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;

ESI HC Threshold:87

JCR Journal Grade:1

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 18

SCOPUS Cited Count: 21

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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Chinese Cited Count:

30 Days PV: 2

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