Stability of continuous-time distributed consensus algorithms
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- 1 January 2004
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 4, 3998-4003 Vol.4
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cdc.2004.1429377
Abstract
We study the stability properties of linear time-varying systems in continuous time whose system matrix is Metzler with zero row sums. This class of systems arises naturally in the context of distributed decision problems, coordination and rendezvous tasks and synchronization problems. The equilibrium set contains all states with identical state components. We present sufficient conditions guaranteeing uniform exponential stability of this equilibrium set, implying that all state components converge to a common value as time grows unbounded. Furthermore it is shown that this convergence result is robust with respect to an arbitrary delay, provided that the delay affects only the off-diagonal terms in the differential equation.Keywords
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