Consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems

Abstract

In this study, the consensus problem of heterogeneous multi-agent system is considered. First, the heterogeneous multi-agent system is proposed which is composed of first-order and second-order integrator agents in two aspects. Then, the consensus problem of heterogeneous multi-agent system is discussed with the linear consensus protocol and the saturated consensus protocol, respectively. By applying the graph theory and Lyapunov direct method, some sufficient conditions for consensus are established when the communication topologies are undirected connected graphs and leader-following networks. Finally, some examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.