Consensus Protocols in Networks With 1-to-n Joint-Agent Interactions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Angeli, David; Manfredi, Sabato
• 署名单位: Imperial College London; University of Florence; University of Naples Federico II
• 刊物名称: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0018-9286
• DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3462551
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 1273-1280
• 关键词: Petri nets; mathematical models; predictive models; optimization; Discrete-event systems; Consensus protocol; TOPOLOGY; Consensus dynamics; Cyber-physical systems; distributed systems; joint-agent interactions

摘要

In the scientific literature of the past two decades many conditions to assess consensus-ability in multiagent networks with 1-to-1 interactions have been proposed. More recently the framework has been extended to include the m-to-1 type-interactions, referred as joint-agent interactions. In this article, we consider a novel framework of networks with 1-to-n interactions, potentially extendable to m-to-n ones, and formulate sufficient and necessary analytical conditions for consensus-ability. The considered interactions may also well represent the heterophilous dynamics in opinion and social systems. Finally, shedding light on the scenario of 1-to-n interactions could inspire the formulation of new distributed algorithms to be exploited in engineering applications.