State-Feedback Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Data Packet Dropout in the Communication Channels: A Markovian Approach.

The paper presents an H∞ type control procedure for multi-agent systems taking into account possible data dropout in the communication network. The data dropout is modelled using a standard homogeneous Markov chain leading to an H∞ type control problem for stochastic multi-agent systems with Markovian jumps. The considered H∞ type criterion includes, besides the components corresponding to the attenuation condition of exogenous disturbance inputs, quadratic terms aiming to acquire the consensus between the agents.