Global Consensus of Positive Edge System With Sector Input Nonlinearities

This paper investigates the positive edge consensus problems for undirected networks, where each edge is modeled by a continuous-time positive system with sector input nonlinearities. Based on a given nodal network, the corresponding edge network is presented, and some relationships between the given nodal network and its edge network are given. The observer-based protocol for non-negative consensus is proposed. Rigorous theoretical analysis which considers both the input nonlinearities and the positivity constraint is introduced to achieve a global consensus result. Simultaneous stabilization problems are constructed for edge-based non-negative consensus using the maximum and the minimum nonzero eigenvalues of the edge Laplacian matrix. Furthermore, the robustness of the positive edge consensus to parameter perturbation is illustrated. Sufficient non-negative consensus conditions related to the bounds of system matrices are given, and the non-negative edge consensus conditions for star nodal networks are also given only using the vertex number. Iterative linear matrix inequalities (LMIs)/LMI algorithm is presented to obtain the feedback matrix and the observer matrix. The given theoretical results are finally illustrated by some simulations.