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Randomized optimal consensus of multi-agent systems
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), Automatic Control. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), Centres, ACCESS Linnaeus Centre.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), Automatic Control. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), Centres, ACCESS Linnaeus Centre.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9940-5929
2012 (English)In: Automatica, ISSN 0005-1098, E-ISSN 1873-2836, Vol. 48, no 12, p. 3018-3030Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, we formulate and solve a randomized optimal consensus problem for multi-agent systems with stochastically time-varying interconnection topology. The considered multi-agent system with a simple randomized iterating rule achieves an almost sure consensus meanwhile solving the optimization problem min(z is an element of Rd) Sigma(n)(i=1) f(i)(z), in which the optimal solution set of objective function f(i) can only be observed by agent i itself. At each time step, simply determined by a Bernoulli trial, each agent independently and randomly chooses either taking an average among its neighbor set, or projecting onto the optimal solution set of its own optimization component. Both directed and bidirectional communication graphs are studied. Connectivity conditions are proposed to guarantee an optimal consensus almost surely with proper convexity and intersection assumptions. The convergence analysis is carried out using convex analysis. We compare the randomized algorithm with the deterministic one via a numerical example. The results illustrate that a group of autonomous agents can reach an optimal opinion by each node simply making a randomized trade-off between following its neighbors or sticking to its own opinion at each time step.

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2012. Vol. 48, no 12, p. 3018-3030
Keywords [en]
Multi-agent systems, Optimal consensus, Set convergence, Distributed optimization, Randomized algorithms
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Control Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-85510DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2012.08.018ISI: 000312286800003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84869509269OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-85510DiVA, id: diva2:499944
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationSwedish Research CouncilICT - The Next Generation
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Available from: 2012-02-13 Created: 2012-02-13 Last updated: 2022-06-24Bibliographically approved

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