Systems and Control Seminar in the Sommer Semester 2019
Finite-Time Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems in the Presence of Communication Time Delays
Speaker
Maryam Sharifi
Visiting researcher at ETH Zürich
Time and Place
Abstract
Distributed cooperative control of multi-agent systems has been extensively considered in recent decades due to its applicability in the real physical world. The applications include cooperation between robots, distributed estimation in sensor networks, cyber physical systems and communication networks. In order to improve the performance of multi-agent systems, some significant challenges should be resolved. Some examples are the rate of convergence to consensus, the presence of time-delays in communications, and robustness issues. In this talk, some of our recent results concerning the consensus of a group of nonlinear multi-agent systems in the presence of communication time delays will be presented. The deterministic and stochastic disturbances are also considered and some robust delay-dependent stability criteria in asymptotic and finite-time senses will be provided.
Information about the Speaker
Maryam Sharifi received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013, and 2015, respectively. She is working toward her Ph.D. at the Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, since 2015. She is currently a visiting researcher at ETH University. Her research interests include multi-agent coordination, robotics, medical robotics, nonlinear, adaptive and robust control.