Volume 8
							Issue 4 
						IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
| Citation: | Junkang Ni, Peng Shi, Yu Zhao, and Zhonghua Wu, "Fixed-Time Output Consensus Tracking for High-Order Multi-Agent Systems With Directed Network Topology and Packet Dropout," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 817-836, Apr. 2021. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2021.1003916 | 
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