Predictive Consensus for Networked Multi-Agent Systems With Switching Topology, Input Delay and Time-Varying Communication Delays

This brief investigates the consensus for networked delayed multi-agent systems with switching topologies and time-varying communication delays. Novel consensus protocol that uses (pseudo) predictive scheme is proposed to synchronize the states of agents. Sufficient consensus conditions are derived, and the results show that the state consensus can be guaranteed if the graphs contain a joint spanning tree as frequently as the system evolves and no eigenvalues of system matrix exist outside the unit circle. Numerical examples illustrate the theoretic results.