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Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems

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A multi-agent system is a dynamic system consisting of a group of interacting agents distributed over a network. Consensus of a multi-agent system is an agreement problem among all the members of the multi-agent system. As one of the typical collective behavior, the consensus problem of multi-agent systems has attracted the attention of numerous researchers in recent years.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xinzhi Liu & Kexue Zhang

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Liu, X., Zhang, K. (2019). Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems. In: Impulsive Systems on Hybrid Time Domains. IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06212-5_5

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