%0 Journal Article
%T Second
%A Dongmei Xie
%A Fangcui Jiang
%A Lin Shi
%J Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
%@ 1477-0369
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0142331218755432
%X This paper studies the group consensus problem of second-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with switching communication topology. Unlike most existing papers concerning the consensus issue of MASs under arbitrary switching topology or Markovian switching topology, our paper tries to design a switching signal such that MAS can achieve group consensus under a designed switching signal set. First, using a state transformation method, the group consensus problem of MASs can be equivalently transformed into the asymptotical stability of a corresponding switched system. Then, two sufficient criteria are established by using Lyapunov function method and average dwell time (ADT) approach, where the minimum ADT ¦Ó a is given clearly. Finally, simulation examples are given to show the effectiveness of our theoretical analysis
%K Group consensus
%K average dwell time
%K Lyapunov function method
%K switching communication topology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0142331218755432