Function (biology)

Automatic gain control

Control (management)

Engineering

Transient (computer programming)

Biology

Bandwidth (computing)

Multi-agent system

Control engineering

Consensus

Convergence (economics)

Operating system

Telecommunications

Economics

Reset (finance)

Amplifier

Computer science

Controller (irrigation)

Evolutionary biology

Agronomy

Double integrator

Artificial intelligence

Financial economics

Economic growth

Control theory (sociology)

Integrator

Automatica

In this paper, we address the consensus problem for double-integrator multi-agent systems integrated with a novel reset control protocol. It reveals the conditions under which consensus is achieved and the reset function is in action. The proposed reset control essentially provides a dynamically generated higher gain for better transient consensus performance, including faster convergence with less control effort. Compared with a static high gain controller, this dynamic high gain mechanism is more efficient and sophisticated especially in regularly resetting the additional gain to zero during the dynamic evolution.

Reset control for consensus of double-integrator multi-agent systems