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Area of Science:

Control Systems Engineering
Networked Systems
Distributed Systems

Background:

Consensus tracking is crucial for coordinated behavior in multi-agent systems.
Heterogeneous systems with interdependent components present unique control challenges.
Fixed communication topologies require specific strategies for achieving consensus.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a distributed consensus tracking control protocol for heterogeneous interdependent group systems.
To analyze the impact of interdependence parameters on system consensus.
To establish sufficient conditions for achieving consensus tracking under fixed topologies.

Main Methods:

Modeling heterogeneous systems considering individual characteristics and subgroup topology.
Designing a distributed control protocol utilizing local information.
Deriving mathematical conditions to guarantee consensus tracking.
Analyzing the influence of interdependence proportion and redundancy parameters.

Main Results:

A novel distributed consensus tracking control protocol is proposed.
Sufficient conditions for consensus tracking are established for fixed topologies.
The impact of interdependence proportion and redundancy on consensus is quantified.
Numerical simulations validate the theoretical findings.

Conclusions:

The proposed control protocol effectively achieves consensus tracking in heterogeneous interdependent systems.
System performance is sensitive to the proportion of interdependent individuals and redundancy.
The theoretical framework provides a foundation for designing robust distributed control systems.