Consensus of General Linear Multi-Agent Systems under Directed Communication Graph with Limited Data Rate

This paper investigates the consensus problem of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems with limited date rate. By constructing a novel dynamic quantizer, a distributed protocol is developed for general linear systems with directed communication topology. It is shown that not only the quantized consensus is achieved for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics under a directed communication graph. A simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed consensus protocol.