(Un)conditional consensus emergence under perturbed and decentralized feedback controls

Abstract : We study the problem of consensus emergence in multiagent systems via feedback control. We consider a set of agents interacting with dynamics given by the Cucker-Smale model, and study its consensus stabilization via centralized and decentralized control configurations. We present a characterization of consensus emergence for systems with a feedback based on spatially confined information, corresponding to a parameter-dependent transition regime between self-regulation and centralized feedback stabilization.