Abstract
Conference Title: 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Conference Start Date: 2013, Dec. 10 Conference End Date: 2013, Dec. 13 Conference Location: Firenze, Italy This paper considers the finite-time consensus and stability problems of networked nonlinear systems under an undirected fixed graph. A nonlinear system takes a general form of a controlled first-order differential equation with/without drift term. Sufficient conditions for finite-time consensus and stabilization of networked nonlinear systems are achieved. In multi-system formation, the proposed theoretical approach generalizes the literature results for multi-agent stability and consensus. Heterogenous/homogeneous multi-system formation is a direct application of the given analysis. Some examples are integrated for illustration. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]