Performance Improvement in Noisy Linear Consensus Networks With Time-Delay

Autor: Milad Siami, Nader Motee, Yaser Ghaedsharaf, Christoforos Somarakis
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 64:2457-2472
ISSN: 2334-3303
0018-9286
DOI: 10.1109/tac.2018.2874675
Popis: We analyze performance of a class of time-delay first-order consensus networks from a graph topological perspective and present methods to improve it. The performance is measured by network's square of H-2 norm and it is shown that it is a convex function of Laplacian eigenvalues and the coupling weights of the underlying graph of the network. First, we propose a tight convex, but simple, approximation of the performance measure in order to achieve lower complexity in our design problems by eliminating the need for eigen-decomposition. The effect of time-delay reincarnates itself in the form of non-monotonicity, which results in nonintuitive behaviors of the performance as a function of graph topology. Next, we present three methods to improve the performance by growing, re-weighting, or sparsifying the underlying graph of the network. It is shown that our suggested algorithms provide near-optimal solutions with lower complexity with respect to existing methods in literature.
16 pages, 11 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE