Designing purely decentralized controllers to stabilize non-minimum-phase double integrator networks with general sensing topologies

This article examines whether purely decentralized controllers can be designed to stabilize networks of double-integrator agents with general observation topologies and identical non-minimum-phase internal dynamics. A new control architecture is proposed, that permits stabilization of such non-minimum-phase double-integrator networks. This design provides an alternative to solutions that require information exchange (of controller memory variables) between agents.