A Distributed Algorithm for Computing a Common Fixed Point of a Finite Family of Paracontractions
Daniel Fullmer, A. Stephen Morse · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2018
A distributed algorithm is described for finding a common fixed point of a family of m > 1 nonlinear maps Mi : ℝn→ ℝnassuming that each map is a paracontraction and that at least one such common fixed point exists. The common fixed point is simultaneously computed by m agents assuming each agent i knows only Mi, the current estimates of the fixed point generated by its neighbors, and nothing more. Each agent recursively updates its estimate of a fixed point by utilizing the current estimates generated by each of its neighbors. Neighbor relations are characterized by a time-varying directed graph N(t). It is shown under suitably general conditions on N(t), that the algorithm causes all agent estimates to converge to the same common fixed point of the m nonlinear maps.