Reaching consensus via polynomial stochastic operators: A general study

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear protocol for a structured time-varying synchronous multi-agent system in which an opinion sharing dynamics is presented by non-autonomous polynomial stochastic operators associated with high-order stochastic hyper-matrices. We show that the proposed nonlinear protocol generates the Krause mean process. We provide a criterion to establish a consensus in the multi-agent system under the proposed nonlinear protoco