Predictive Control for Consensus Problem of Multi-agents System with Communication Management

This paper studies the consensus problem of multi-agents system with communication management. Communication management means a strategy about how to adjust the sensing range of agents in the consensus process for saving communication energy. We propose a communication management for multi-agents system with second-order dynamics so that with this strategy, different control methods can be applied and the designing work is simplified. And a predictive control method is presented to solve the consensus problem of multi-agents system with the communication management in this paper. Simulation results indicate the effectiveness of the predictive control method and the benefits for solving this problem.