Information Consensus in Distributed Systems Under Local Communication and Switching Topologies

This paper deals with the Information consensus problem in distributed systems under local communication and dynamically switching interaction topologies. We show conditions under which consensus is reached under switching directed information exchange topologies. We propose distributed model predictive control schemes that take into account constraints on the agents input and show that they guarantee consensus under mild assumptions. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is effective under both fixed and dynamically switching interaction topologies.