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Tight Upper Bound for the Scrambling Constant of Uniformly Jointly Connected Directed Graphs With Application to Consensus of Multiagent Systems

  • Chao Huang
  • , Gang Feng
  • , Hao Zhang*
  • , Huaicheng Yan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review

Abstract

In this article, we give upper bounds for the scrambling constant (SC) of the composition of general uniformly jointly connected (UJC) directed graphs. Some bounds are tight as they can be achieved by the UJC complete N-layer graphs. Moreover, this article establishes new and explicit connections between the upper bounds and the number of consecutive graphs needed to composite a neighbor-shared graph. Then, the upper bounds are exploited to find new lower bounds for the convergence rate of consensus protocols over UJC communication graphs. The simulation shows that consensus over UJC complete N-layer graphs may have the slowest convergence rate over all unweighted switching graphs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1082-1092
JournalIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Volume8
Issue number3
Online published20 Apr 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2021

Research Keywords

  • Consensus protocol
  • Control systems
  • Convergence
  • Directed graphs
  • Distributed Algorithms/Control
  • Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
  • Networks of Autonomous Agents
  • scrambling constant
  • Switches
  • Upper bound

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