Research Article

Optimizing Pinned Nodes to Maximize the Convergence Rate of Multiagent Systems with Digraph Topologies

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Dynamics of with different pinning algorithms. The left eigenvector index algorithm applies the strategy of pinning nodes associated with the largest elements in the left eigenvector corresponding to 0 of the Laplacian matrix. The pinned node number is fixed to be 3. Averaged over 50 times.
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