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    • Networked Systems

    Background:

    • Multiagent systems require coordinated behavior for complex tasks.
    • Achieving consensus in systems with directed communication is challenging.
    • Existing methods may be computationally intensive or sensitive to data loss.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel, efficient second-order consensus strategy for multiagent systems.
    • To address challenges posed by directed communication topologies and intermittent data availability.
    • To establish conditions for achieving consensus under specific control and communication parameters.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed a periodic intermittent control strategy utilizing only sampled position data.
    • Developed a consensus condition based on coupling gains, sampling period, communication width, and Laplacian spectrum.
    • Designed a delay-induced consensus protocol with associated necessary and sufficient conditions.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed strategy reduces operating time and update rates for individual agents.
    • The method effectively manages scenarios with missing velocity information.
    • Necessary and sufficient conditions for consensus were derived, including optimal sampling period intervals.
    • A delay-induced protocol was designed, simplifying the selection of parameters for consensus.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel consensus strategy is effective for second-order multiagent systems with directed topologies.
    • The derived conditions provide clear guidelines for parameter selection to achieve consensus.
    • The approach offers robustness against missing data and improved operational efficiency.