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Consensus over clustered networks using intermittent and asynchronous output feedback

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Federico M. Zegers *
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Sean Phillips
DOI:10.1016/j.nahs.2025.101656delete
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Distributed consensus protocols provide a mechanism for spreading information within clustered networks, allowing agents and clusters to make decisions without requiring direct access to the state of the ensemble. In this work, we propose a strategy for achieving system-wide consensus in the states of identical linear time-invariant systems coupled by an undirected graph whose directed sub-graphs are available only at sporadic times. Within this work, the agents of the network are organized into pairwise disjoint clusters, which induce sub-graphs of the undirected parent graph. Some cluster sub-graph pairs are linked by an inter-cluster sub-graph, where the union of all cluster and inter-cluster sub-graphs yields the undirected parent graph. Each agent utilizes a distributed consensus protocol with components that are updated intermittently and asynchronously with respect to other agents and inter-clusters. The closed-loop ensemble dynamics is modeled as a hybrid system, and a Lyapunov-based stability analysis yields sufficient conditions for rendering the agreement subspace (consensus set) globally exponentially stable. Furthermore, an input-to-state stability argument demonstrates the consensus set is robust to a large class of perturbations. A numerical simulation considering both nominal and perturbed scenarios is provided for validation purposes.

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nonlinear analysis: hybrid systems
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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air force research laboratory
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