Chapter 4
Consensus for Heterogeneous Systems with Delays
4.1 Introduction
Recent technological advances in communications and computation have spurred a broad interest in control law architectures involving the monitoring, coordination, integration, and operation of sensing, computing, communication and actuation components that tightly interact with the physical processes that they control. These systems are known as cyber-physical systems (see [354] and the references therein) and even though they are transforming the way in which we interact with the physical world, they introduce several grand research challenges. In particular, due to the use of open computation and communication platform architectures, controlled cyber-physical ...
