ABSTRACT
The past decade has witnessed an ever-growing interest in the study of socalled multi-agent systems (MASs) that have found extensive applications in various areas including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), automated highway systems (AHSs) and mobile robotics. Among popular research issues regarding MASs, the so-called consensus problem is concerned with the process where a batch of interacting agents governed by certain interconnection topology achieve a collective goal (e.g. the same trajectory). Owing to their clear engineering insights, the consensus behaviors of MASs have attracted a surge of research attention leading to a rich body of literature.
