# Designing Fully Distributed Consensus Protocols for Linear Multi-agent Systems with Directed Graphs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7377 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1312.7377/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 28 Dec 2013.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Learning nonlinear dynamics in synchronization of knowledge-based leader-following networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.14676/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and directed communication graphs. Existing works usually design consensus protocols using the smallest real part of the nonzero eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix associated with the communication graph, which however is global information. In this paper, based on only the agent dynamics and the relative states of neighboring agents, a distributed adaptive consensus protocol is designed to achieve leader-follower consensus for any communication graph containing a directed spanning tree with the leader as the root node. The proposed adaptive protocol is independent of any global information of the communication graph and thereby is fully distributed. Extensions to the case with multiple leaders are further studied.