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    The Most Exigent Eigenvalue: Guaranteeing Consensus under an Unknown Communication Topology and Time Delays

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    This document aims to answer the question of what is the minimum delay value that guarantees convergence to consensus for a group of second order agents operating under different protocols, provided that the communication topology is connected but unknown. That is, for all the possible communication topologies, which value of the delay guarantees stability? To answer this question we revisit the concept of most exigent eigenvalue, applying it to two different consensus protocols for agents driven by second order dynamics. We show how the delay margin depends on the structure of the consensus protocol and the communication topology, and arrive to a boundary that guarantees consensus for any connected communication topology. The switching topologies case is also studied. It is shown that for one protocol the stability of the individual topologies is sufficient to guarantee consensus in the switching case, whereas for the other one it is not

    Time-and event-driven communication process for networked control systems: A survey

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    Copyright © 2014 Lei Zou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.In recent years, theoretical and practical research topics on networked control systems (NCSs) have gained an increasing interest from many researchers in a variety of disciplines owing to the extensive applications of NCSs in practice. In particular, an urgent need has arisen to understand the effects of communication processes on system performances. Sampling and protocol are two fundamental aspects of a communication process which have attracted a great deal of research attention. Most research focus has been on the analysis and control of dynamical behaviors under certain sampling procedures and communication protocols. In this paper, we aim to survey some recent advances on the analysis and synthesis issues of NCSs with different sampling procedures (time-and event-driven sampling) and protocols (static and dynamic protocols). First, these sampling procedures and protocols are introduced in detail according to their engineering backgrounds as well as dynamic natures. Then, the developments of the stabilization, control, and filtering problems are systematically reviewed and discussed in great detail. Finally, we conclude the paper by outlining future research challenges for analysis and synthesis problems of NCSs with different communication processes.This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61329301, 61374127, and 61374010, the Royal Society of the UK, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany
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