... access article distributed under the Creative Commons AttributionLicense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited.This ... restrict ourexamination of higher-order DAC algorithm to M= 3inthe subsequent results. In addition to the results shown here, we ran thissimulation setup for various realizations of random ... [1, 2], for example, moving-object acquisition and tracking, habitat monitoring, recon-naissance, and surveillance. In the DAC approach, averageconsensus can be sufficiently reached within a connectednetwork...