A survey of consensus problems in multi-agent coordination
American Control Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005, (June 2005)DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2005.1470239
Abstract
As a distributed solution to multi-agent coordination, consensus or agreement problems have been studied extensively in the literature. This paper provides a survey of consensus problems in multi-agent cooperative control with the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regarding consensus seeking under both time-invariant and dynamically changing information exchange topologies are summarized. Applications of consensus protocols to multiagent coordination are investigated. Future research directions and open problems are also proposed.
