Consensus in Asynchronous Multiagent Systems. I. Asynchronous Consensus Models

摘要

We present a survey of results on models of consensus in asynchronous multiagent systems with discrete and continuous time. We consider mathematical methods developed over recent years, which are used in the analysis of stability, stabilization, and consensus problems for linear multiagent systems with discrete time. These methods are based on the idea of using the notion of joint/generalized spectral radius of a set of matrices to analyze the rate of convergence of matrix products with factors drawn from certain sets of matrices with special properties.