This paper studies the consensus problem of networked multi-agent systems (NMASs). Distributed delays are considered in the agent dynamics, and we propose a new type of impulsive consensus protocols that also takes into account of distributed delays. A novel method is developed to estimate the relation between the agent states at the impulsive instants and the distributed-delayed agent states, which helps to use the Razumikhin-type stability result to investigate the consensus of NMASs with distributed-delayed impulses. Sufficient conditions are established to guarantee that the network consensus can be reached via the proposed consensus protocols with fixed and switching topologies, respectively. Numerical simulations are also provided to demonstrate our theoretical results.
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