LMI Consensus Condition for Discrete-time Multi-agent Systems

Magdi S. Mahmoud obtained B. Sc. (Honors) in Communication Engineering, M. Sc. in Electronic Engineering and Ph. D. in Systems Engineering, all from Cairo University in 1968, 1972 and 1974, respectively. He has been Professor of Engineering since 1984. He is now a Distinguished Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK ((Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of thirty-six (36) books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 520 peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of two national, one regional and several university prizes for outstanding research in engineering and applied mathematics. He is a fellow of the IEE, a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered consultant engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt). He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networked-control systems, triggering mechanisms in dynamical systems, fault-tolerant systems and information technology. (e-mail: msmahmoud@kfupm.edu.sa)

Gulam Dastagir Khan received his bachelor degree in Electronic and Instrumentation Engineering from Osmania university, Hyderabad, India in 2009. He did his master degree in Control Instrumentation and Systems Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia in 2013. His research interests include Markov models for buffered packet, game theory, and multiagent networked controlled systems. (e-mail: dastagir.khan66@gmail.com)