A characterization of algebraic connectivity of multi-agent systems with hierarchical network structure
H. Lee, Yasumasa Fujisaki · IFAC-PapersOnLine · 2017
This paper presents a characterization of the algebraic connectivity of a multi-agent system (MAS) with hierarchical network structure having heterogeneous subsystems. The MAS is represented as an interconnected system of several kinds of multi-agent subsystems via a certain structure, where several vertices of each subsystem are connected to the structure, that is, to other subsystems. The algebraic connectivity of this MAS can be computed by using a corresponding MAS having homogeneous subsystems under a certain condition, which is investigated in this paper.