"Delay Robustness in Cooperative Control"
Ulrich Muenz, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control-University of Stuttgart
http://www.ist.uni-stuttgart.de/~muenz/The robustness of various cooperative control schemes with respect toheterogeneous communication delays is investigated. The presentedresults provide delay-dependent and delay-independent conditions thatguarantee consensus, rendezvous, flocking, and synchronization indifferent classes of multi-agent systems (MAS). All conditions arescalable to arbitrarily large multi-agent systems with heterogeneouscommunication delays. The results are applied to several examples andsimulations illustrate the findings.
Biographical Information
Ulrich Münz received his Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering andinformation technology (equivalent MSc) from the University ofStuttgart, Germany, and his diploma in telecommunications (Ingeniero deTelecomunicación, equivalent MSc) from the Polytechnic University ofMadrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Spain, both in 2005. InSeptember 2005, he joined the Institute for Systems Theory and AutomaticControl at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he is currently aresearch and teaching assistant. His research interests include theanalysis and design of cooperating multi-agent systems withcommunication delays, the analysis and design of time-delay systems ingeneral, networked control systems, as well as fault diagnosis.
