A Hybrid Thermodynamic Control Protocol for Semistability and Consensus of Network Systems With Intermittent Information

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Haddad, Wassim M.; Chahine, Makram
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0018-9286
• DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.3008301
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 2754-2761
• 关键词: thermodynamics; dynamical systems; Protocols; trajectory; Network topology; TOPOLOGY; distributed impulsive control; hybrid consensus protocols; intermittent communication; multiagent systems; semistability; state equipartition; thermodynamic networks

摘要

Network systems involve distributed decision making for coordination of networks of dynamic agents and address a broad area of applications in science and engineering. In this article, we develop a thermodynamically based framework for addressing consensus problems using a hybrid control protocol architecture with a dynamic communication topology wherein communication events are triggered via state-dependent resettings consistent with thermodynamic principles. The proposed hybrid controller architecture involves the exchange of intermittent state information between agents guaranteeing that the closed-loop dynamical network is semistable to an equipartitioned equilibrium representing a state of information consensus consistent with basic thermodynamic principles.