Advances in network controllability

L **ang, F Chen, W Ren, G Chen - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The last decade has seen an explosion of research in network controllability. The present
article reviews some basic concepts, significant progress, important results and recent …

Controllability of multi-agent systems from a graph-theoretic perspective

A Rahmani, M Ji, M Mesbahi, M Egerstedt - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2009 - SIAM
In this work, we consider the controlled agreement problem for multi-agent networks, where
a collection of agents take on leader roles while the remaining agents execute local …

Graph theoretic methods in multiagent networks

M Mesbahi, M Egerstedt - 2010 - torrossa.com
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.”—
Woody Allen The emergence of (relatively) cheap sensing and actuation nodes, capable of …

Interconnection topologies for multi-agent coordination under leader–follower framework

Z Ji, Z Wang, H Lin, Z Wang - Automatica, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, the formation control problem of the network of multiple agents is studied in
terms of controllability, where the network is of the leader–follower structure with some …

Optimal consensus algorithms for cooperative team of agents subject to partial information

E Semsar-Kazerooni, K Khorasani - Automatica, 2008 - Elsevier
The objectives of this work are the development and design of controllers for a team of
agents that accomplish consensus for agents' output in both leaderless (LL) and modified …

Controllability of hypergraphs

C Chen, A Surana, AM Bloch… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a notion of controllability for hypergraphs via tensor algebra and
polynomial control theory. Inspired by uniform hypergraphs, we propose a new tensor-based …

Leaders in multi-agent controllability under consensus algorithm and tree topology

Z Ji, H Lin, H Yu - Systems & Control Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
By controllability of multi-agent systems, we mean the property that all agents can be driven
to arbitrary configurations only through regulating a few leaders externally, while the rest of …

Structural controllability and observability of linear systems over finite fields with applications to multi-agent systems

S Sundaram, CN Hadjicostis - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a graph-theoretic characterization of controllability and observability of linear
systems over finite fields. Specifically, we show that a linear system will be structurally …

Controllability analysis of multi-agent systems using relaxed equitable partitions

S Martini, M Egerstedt, A Bicchi - International Journal of …, 2010 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper investigates how to make decentralised networks, amenable to external control,
ie, how to ensure that they are appropriately organised so that they can be effectively' …

Controllability of multi-agent systems based on agreement protocols

L Wang, FC Jiang, GM **e, ZJ Ji - Science in China Series F: Information …, 2009 - Springer
This paper investigates the controllability of multi-agent systems based on agreement
protocols. First, for a group of single-integrator agents, the controllability is studied in a …