Group consensus of hybrid multi-agent systems

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the group consensus of first-order hybrid Multiagent System (MAS). The hybrid MAS contains both continuous-time and discrete-time agents. We propose four consensus protocols for different cases. The consensus analysis is mainly based on algebraic graph theory and matrix theory. Sufficient and necessary conditions are provided for different cases to solve the group consensus of the hybrid MASs. Finally, numerical simulations are designed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed protocols.