Group Consensus of Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems with Time Delay

Abstract

In this paper, a neighbour-based control algorithm of group consensus is designed for a class of hybrid-based heterogeneous multiagent systems with communication time delay. We consider the statics leaders and active leaders, respectively. The original systems are transformed into new error systems by transformation. On the basis of the systems, applying Lyapunov stability theory and adopting the linear matrix inequality method, sufficient conditions which guarantee the heterogeneous multiagent systems stability are obtained. To illustrate the validity of theoretical results, some numerical simulations are given at the end of the paper.