NDLI: On the number of leaders needed to ensure network connectivity in arbitrary dimensions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gustavi, T. Dimarogonas, D.V. Egerstedt, M. Xiaoming Hu
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: School of Engineering Sciences, Royal institute of Technology (KTH), 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden (Gustavi, T.; Xiaoming Hu) \|\| Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A. (Dimarogonas, D.V.) \|\| School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, USA (Egerstedt, M.)
Abstract	We examine the leader-to-follower ratio needed to maintain connectivity in a leader-follower multi-agent network with proximity based communication topology. The paper extends the one-dimensional results of [2] to the two dimensional case. In the scenario we consider, only the leaders are aware of the global mission, which is to converge to a known destination point. Thus, the objective of the leaders is to drag the team to the desired goal. In the paper we obtain bounds on the number of leaders needed to complete the task. The results are first established for an initially complete communication graph and then extended to the incomplete case. Computer simulations support the derived theory.
Starting Page	98
Ending Page	103
File Size	246597
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424446841
DOI	10.1109/MED.2009.5164521
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-06-24
Publisher Place	Greece
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Multiagent systems Automation Network topology Computer simulation Automatic control Distributed control Control systems Robot sensing systems Sensor systems and applications Application software
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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