Consensus Under Switching Topology and Observer Information

In the past few decades, more attention has been attracted to the research of complex networks, such as Boolean networks (Huang et al. 2020), neural networks (Huang et al. 2018), and so on. However, running a large piece of equipment with a network structure is expensive, so multi-agent systems are used as a replacement for costly systems. The fundamental function of multi-agent systems is to solve complex practical problems effectively, which is beyond the ability of a single agent. Nowadays, multi-agent systems have been widely applied in system coordination (Cao et al. 2013), intelligent transportation systems (Adler et al. 2005), cooperative control (Meng 2018; He et al. 2020), etc. Some meaningful theoretical results have been presented according to the Lyapunov approach and linear matrix inequality (He et al. 2017; Hosseini et al. 2019). In real applications, it is only sometimes effective for control techniques mentioned in the above literatures when the systems require high precision in a finite time.