Abstract: 

The so-called Lyapunov-based methods are proposed in order to study some problems related to distributed coordination of multi-agent systems. More precisely, the presentation is divided into three parts. The first part studies consensus problem for a network of single-integrator systems under a bidirectional time-varying graph topology. The second part considers a group of nonlinear agents modeled as nonholonomic mobile robots, distributed control laws are provided in order to solve the leader-follower and the leaderless consensus problems under different assumptions on the communication graph topology and on the leader's trajectories. Finally, using a singular perturbation approach, the last part is advocated to the synchronization of a heterogeneous network of nonlinear oscillators under a sufficiently large coupling gain.

Bio:

Mohamed Adlene Maghenem received his Control-Engineer degree from the Polytechnical School of Algiers, Algeria, in 2013, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control from the University of Paris-Saclay, France, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computer Engineering Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. His interests include distributed coordination of multi-agent systems, Synchronization of oscillators, Systems with Persistency of Excitation, Hybrid dynamical systems. 

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