On second-order synchronization protocols of multi-agent systems

In this paper, an approach is proposed to design synchronization protocols for a network of second-order multi-agents. We prove a series of sufficient conditions for different asymptotic coordination dynamics including synchronization, consensus and stability. These conditions are rather general, which can include some existing results as corollaries. In addition, we can employ them to construct novel second-order synchronization protocols. We present numerical examples to illustrate the efficiency of the theoretical results.