Delay dependent criteria for the consensus of second‐order multi‐agent systems subject to communication delay

In this paper, a distributed controller is designed for the consensus of multi-agent systems in which each agent has a general second-order linear dynamic and the information is exchanged over a data-delaying communication network. Using the sensitivity of system poles to the parameters of the control protocol, graphical delay-dependent synthesis conditions are derived to tune the controller gains. A systematic procedure is developed to attain maximum tolerable transmission delay in the system. Moreover, simpler condition is provided for the special case where the second-order model is reduced to a double integrator. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the merits of the proposed scheme compared to some recent rival ones in the literature