Output Sign-Consensus of Heterogeneous Linear Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract

This paper considers distributed control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems, where each agent is modeled by a general linear time invariant system and all agents may have different dynamics. The communication network is described by fixed signed directed graph which means that the interactions between agents consist of both cooperation and competition. Output sign-consensus problem is introduced and solved, which means output of all agents will arrive at a situation with the same sign but different magnitudes.