Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer SciencesVol.E98-ANo.9pp.1977-1981 Publication Date: 2015/09/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1337 DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E98.A.1977 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Systems and Control Keyword: consensus, nonlinear multi-agent systems, communication delay,
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Summary: This letter deals with the consensus problem of multi-agent systems, which are composed of feedforward nonlinear systems under a directed network with a communication time delay. In order to solve this problem, a new consensus protocol with a low gain parameter is proposed. Moreover, it is shown that under some sufficient conditions, the proposed protocol can solve the consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems even in the presence of an arbitrarily large communication delay. An illustrative example is presented to verify the validity of the proposed approach.
