Min–max group consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems under directed random networks

Abstract

This paper studies the min–max group consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems under a directed random graph, where the presence of each directed edge is randomly determined by a probability and independent of the presence of other edges. Firstly, we propose a min–max consensus protocol without memory, and give the necessary and sufficient conditions to ensure that the multi-agent system can achieve the min–max group consensus in the sense of almost sure and mean square, respectively. Secondly, we design a novel consensus protocol with memory and a behavior mechanism. Using the stochastic analysis theory and the extremal algebra, some necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for achieving the min–max group consensus in the sense of almost sure and mean square, respectively. It is shown that the protocol with memory can solve the loss problem of the maximum and minimum initial states. Finally, the effectiveness of the two group consensus protocols and the behavior mechanism is verified by four numerical simulations.