@inproceedings{d50a2fe4557c44769a11ebb56d7619bf,
title = "Distributed nonlinear control of multi-agent systems with switching topologies",
abstract = "This paper studies the distributed nonlinear control of multi-agent systems with switching topologies for output agreement. A novel cyclic-small-gain approach is proposed. The crucial idea is to introduce a new dynamic mechanism to process the exchanged information between the agents, and to transform the distributed control problem into a stabilization problem for a dynamic network composed of input-to-output stable (IOS) subsystems. The desired distributed controller is designed based on IOS and cyclic-small-gain techniques. More interestingly, it is shown that the proposed method can be extended to distributed control design in the presence of disturbances.",
keywords = "Distributed control, cyclic-small-gain method, nonlinear systems, output agreement, switching topologies",
author = "Tengfei Liu and Jiang, {Zhong Ping} and Tianyou Chai",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2014 ; Conference date: 28-07-2014 Through 30-07-2014",
year = "2014",
month = oct,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/ICInfA.2014.6932648",
language = "English (US)",
series = "2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2014",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "176--181",
booktitle = "2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2014",
}