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Citation: | Magdi S. Mahmoud and Gulam Dastagir Khan, "LMI Consensus Condition for Discrete-time Multi-agent Systems," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 509-513, Mar. 2018. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2016.7510016 |
Recently the problem of distributed consensus in networked multi-agent systems has received significant attention due to its important applications [1]. The purpose of the consensus problem is to design a distributed protocol in the presence of limited information communication such that a group of agents achieves some agreement between the states [2]. A number of recent papers are devoted to the consensus of multiple LTI systems [3]-[10]. However, most of these results [11]-[18], [19] mainly focus on fixed interaction topology, rather than time-varying topology. How the switches of the interaction topology and agent dynamics jointly affect the collective behavior of the multi-agent system? Attempts to understand this issue had been hampered by the lack of suitable analysis tools. The results of Scardovi et al. [20] and Ni and Cheng [21] are mentioned here, because of their contributions dealing with switching topology.
The consensus of multi-agent systems under fixed and switching topology was studied in [21]. In [21], the dynamics of each agent and the leader are considered to be linear and in a continuous time domain. The design technique was based on Riccati inequality, algebraic graph theory and Lyapunov inequality. In [22] distributed consensus problem for multi-agent systems was considered in the discrete-time domain. The interaction topology among the agents was assumed to be switching and undirected.
By using Schur orthogonal transformation, the closed-loop system was decomposed into two subsystems: one for the leader and the other for a leader-following subsystem. Common Lyapunov function (CLF) approach was employed to investigate the consensus problem. In [23], authors proposed the control of a multi-agent system with state measurement and input disturbances. Distributed dynamic output feedback protocol and linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach were used to address control problem.
The main contributions and primary distinctions of this paper with other works can be given as follows.
1) A more realistic and accurate discrete time model is proposed which is relevant for many practical sampled data systems;
2) A new form for state-feedback control based on the aggregate Laplacian is proposed in this paper;
3) Sufficient conditions of stabilization are established using Lyapunov stability theory. The solution to the decentralized consensus problem is provided in terms of LMI;
4) A comparison is made between the developed algorithm and the existing results.
The organization of this paper is as follows: Firstly, notations, communication graph and preliminaries are introduced in Section Ⅱ, which are useful throughout this paper. Then in Section Ⅲ, stability analysis of a multi-agent system is carried out, where in Theorem 1, decentralized consensus problem in multi-agent system is solved by using Schur complement and controller gain matrix is obtained. Later in Section Ⅳ, a simulation example is presented along with some comparison to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed technique. Finally, the conclusion is made.
Throughout this paper, Rn is used to denote the n-dimensional Euclidean space equipped with ‖⋅‖, the standard L2 norm on vectors or their induced norms on matrices and R{m×n} is the set of all m×n real matrices. Let Ir be the unit matrix of order r. The superscript "T" denotes matrix transposition and "⋅" denotes the transpose of corresponding elements introduced by symmetry. X>0 means that it is real symmetric and positive definite; Moreover, X>Y means X−Y>0 Given a matrix W, let ρ(W) denote its spectral radius. For any positive integer N, let IN={1,…,N},diag(W1,…,WN) is a block diagonal matrix with main diagonal block matrices Wj,j∈IN and the off-diagonal blocks are zero matrices. The Kronecker product [24] of A∈Rp×q:=[aij] and B∈Rm×n is denoted by A⊗B and is a pm×qn matrix defined by
A⊗B:=[aijB]. |
The Kronecker product further facilitates the manipulation of matrices by the following expansion properties
1) (A⊗B)(C⊗D)=AC⊗BD
2) (A⊗B)T=AT⊗BT
3) Let A∈Rr×s and B∈RN×N.
Then (IN⊗A)(B⊗Is)=(B⊗Ir)(IN⊗A)=B⊗A.
Depending on the information flow (unidirectional or bidirectional [24], a graph can be used to express the topology of communication network, either directed or undirected. Let G=(V,E,A) be a weighted directed graph (digraph) of order N, where V={v1,…,vN} is the set of nodes and E⊆V×V is the set of edges. The node indexes belong to a finite index set I={1,2,…,N}. An edge of G is denoted by eij=(vi,vj), where the first element of vi of vij is referred as tail of the edge and the other vj to be the head. Weighted adjacency matrix is denoted by A=[aij]∈RN×N, where the adjacency elements associated with the edges are positive, that is eij∈E⇔aij>0. A directed graph is said to be undirected if, it satisfies the condition that aij=aji for any i,j∈I. The set of neighbors of node vi is denoted by INi={vj∈V:(vi,vj)∈E} which the index is set of the agents from which the ith agent can obtain necessary information. The Laplacian L=[lij]N×N associated with the directed graph is defined as
lij={−1,ifj∈INi|INi|,ifj=i0,otherwise |
where INi denotes the number of neighbors of the i{th} agent (the in-degree of agent i). It turns out that L=Λ−A∈Rn×n, where Λ=[Λij] is a diagonal matrix with Λii=∑nj=1aij. Laplacian matrix L has the property that, all the row sums of L are zero and thus an eigenvector of L associated with the zero eigenvalue is 1n=[1,1,1,…,1].
Lemma 1: Given integers n,N and A∈Rn×n,R∈RN×N. Let A0=IN⊗A and R0=R⊗In. Then R0A0=A0R0.
Proof: Using the expansion properties, we obtain
R0A0=(R⊗In)(IN⊗A)=(RIN)⊗(InA)=(INR)⊗(AIn)=(IN⊗A)(R⊗In)=A0R0. |
The multi-agent system (MAS) under study is a group of n agents (1,…,N) with the same dynamics:
xi(k+1)=Axi(k)+Bui(k),i=1,…,N | (1) |
where xi(k)∈Rn is the state of agent i and ui(k)∈Rm is the associated control input, through which the interactions or coupling between agent i and other agents are realized. A∈Rn×n and B∈Rn×m are the state and input matrices, where B is of full column rank. The state information is transmitted among these agents, and the agents together with the transmission channels form a network. The following assumption is used throughout the paper.
Assumption 1: The pair (A,B) is stabilizable [4].
Assumption 2: The interconnection graph of system (1) has a directed spanning tree to guarantee that consensus among agents is possible [9].
Observe that the models of all N agents can be stacked together in the form:
x(k+1)=A0x(k)+B0u(k)A0=IN⊗A,B0=IN⊗A | (2) |
where x=[xT1,xT2,…,xTN]∈RnN,u=[uT1,uT2,…,uTN]∈RmN are the group state and group control input, respectively. The consensus problem is to design the individual state feedback controls ui(k) such that all agents state converge to the same vector, that is
∑k→∞‖xi(k)−xj(k)‖→0,∀i,j. | (3) |
To facilitate further development, we introduce a decentralized control input as
u(k)=K0L0x(k),L0=L⊗InK0=diag{K1,K2,…,KN},Ki=Rn×n | (4) |
which ensures that the control input of the ith agent depends only on states of its neighbor agents and itself. It is important to emphasize that designing K0 aims at steering all states to the same vector.
On combining (2) and (4), the closed-loop system becomes:
x(k+1)=[A0+B0K0L0](k). | (5) |
Recalling the properties of L, there exists a vector xs(k) such that
xs(k)=L0(k)=0⇔x(k)=α1n | (6) |
for some α. It follows with the help of Lemma 1, replacing R0 by L0, that
xs(k+1)=L0x(k+1)=L0[A0+B0K0L0]x(k)=A0L0x(k)+L0B0K0xs(k)=[A0+L0B0K0]xs(k). | (7) |
Considering the stabilization of system (7), we invoke Lyapunov stability theory and reach the following result:
Theorem 1: The controller (4) solves the decentralized consensus problem in system (2) if and only if there exists matrices 0<X,0<R,Y satisfying
[−X+RXAt0+YtBt0Lt0∗−X]<0 | (8) |
where K0 the gain matrix is given by K0=YX−1.
Proof: The stability of the closed-loop system (7) implies the existence of matrices 0<P,0<Q such that
−P+[ˆA0+ˆL0ˆK0]TP[ˆA0+ˆL0BˆK0]+Q<0. | (9) |
Invoking the Schur complements, inequality (9) is equivalent to
[−P+QAt0+Kt0Bt0Lt0∗−P]<0. | (10) |
Introducing X=P−1,R=XQX and applying the congruent transformation T=diag{X,X} to (10), we readily obtain inequality (8) with K0X=Y.
In this section, a numerical simulation is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the developed methodology. Multi-agent system with six agents is considered, where each agent is modeled by following linear dynamics:
xi(k+1)=[−2.421.4235.2343−7.233.4839.4545.336.23−5.23]xi(k)+[−4.24−1.832−0.230.3543.231.097]ui(k),i=1,…,6. | (11) |
It is simple to test that matrix pair (A,B) is stabilizable which satisfies Assumption 1. Consider the communication topology graph as given by Fig. 1. Accordingly the Laplacian matrix L is defined as
[300−1−1−1−1−10000−1−12000−100100000−1−100000−11] |
whose non-zero eigenvalues are given by 1, 1.33760, +0.5623j,−0.5623j,2,3.2347. For the purpose of simulation, the following initial conditions were selected
xi(0)=(0.3,0.15,0.002,−0.1,0.05,−0.09)T. |
Considering Theorem 1, it turns out that the feasible solution of LMI (8) yields that gain matrix:
K0=[−0.00724−0.0027510.00153−0.0086311−0.081−0.02343]. |
The decentralized control input u(k) (4) with feedback gain matrices given as above solves the consensus problem for the communication graph in Fig. 1. The states of the network (11) with the decentralized control input protocol (4) is depicted in Fig. 2. A similar problem has been discussed in [25], [26] where authors investigate average consensus problems in a class of second-order continuous-time multi-agent systems with switching and jointly connected topologies respectively with time-delay, in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The simulation results of the state responses obtained in [25], [26] are shown in Figs. 3 and 4 respectively. Also in [27], average event triggered discrete consensus control for discrete-time multi-agent systems (MASs) is investigated. Stability criteria were established using Lyapunov matrix inequality. In order to avoid Zeno-behavior certain restriction has been imposed on event condition, which led to conservativeness in the developed algorithm. The simulation results of the state responses obtained in this case are shown in Fig. 5.
Several observations can be made from Figs. 3-5. Firstly, our proposed control algorithm demonstrates that the consensus condition can be achieved asymptotically with six agents being steered to the same vector. Secondly, the proposed algorithm takes less time to achieve consensus of the multi-agent network. Thirdly, the MAS oscillates with smaller magnitude. Therefore, from the above simulation results, it can be concluded that the proposed technique of decentralized control input can be successfully employed to achieve a consensus of multi-agent network steered to the same vector.
In this paper, a state feedback protocol is designed to solve the consensus problem in discrete-time multi-agent systems in terms of a linear matrix inequality. Feedback gain matrix is obtained by solving the simple LMI. Consensus condition is achieved with six agents being steered to the same vector. In order to show the improved performance of the proposed methodology, the simulation results obtained in this paper are compared with those in [25]-[27]. Future work will focus on solving observer based model where the dynamics of the followers are subjected to perturbations as well as leader-following tracking for multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics.
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