Delay's Impact in Adaptive Versatile Intelligent Portable (VIP) Communications on Consensus in a Robotic Multi-Agent System

Abstract

In multi-agent robotic systems, communication plays a key role in achieving coordinated behavior. This paper studies a consensus-based framework for networked multi-agent system where communication topology is described by using adjacency and Laplacian matrices. The analysis investigates the importance of communication performance and how it can affect system performance and stability. We analyze that system convergence can compromise stability within VIPRO (Versatile Intelligent Portable Robot) interfaces just by introducing discrete-time step delays. These findings are relevant for applications that require precise coordination and emphasize the importance of communication when designing multi- robot systems.