This article investigates the time-varying output group formation tracking control(GFTC)problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems(HMASs)under switching topologies.The objective is to design a distributed control s...This article investigates the time-varying output group formation tracking control(GFTC)problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems(HMASs)under switching topologies.The objective is to design a distributed control strategy that enables the outputs of the followers to form the desired sub-formations and track the outputs of the leader in each subgroup.Firstly,novel distributed observers are developed to estimate the states of the leaders under switching topologies.Then,GFTC protocols are designed based on the proposed observers.It is shown that with the distributed protocol,the GFTC problem for HMASs under switching topologies is solved if the average dwell time associated with the switching topologies is larger than a fixed threshold.Finally,an example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.展开更多
This paper studies the consensus problems for multi-agent systems with general linear and nonlinear dynamics. The leaderless and leader-following consensus problems are investigated respectively. Contraction theory is...This paper studies the consensus problems for multi-agent systems with general linear and nonlinear dynamics. The leaderless and leader-following consensus problems are investigated respectively. Contraction theory is employed to gen- erate some sufficient conditions for testing the agents reaching consensus. Under these conditions and certain assumptions, the trajectories of multi-agent systems in directed topology will converge to each other. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results,展开更多
This paper considers the cooperative tracking of linear multi-agent systems with a dynamic leader whose input informa-tion is unavailable to any followers.Cooperative iterative learning controllers,based on the relati...This paper considers the cooperative tracking of linear multi-agent systems with a dynamic leader whose input informa-tion is unavailable to any followers.Cooperative iterative learning controllers,based on the relative state information of neighboring agents,are proposed for tracking the dynamic leader over directed communication topologies.Stability and convergence of the proposed controllers are established using Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals.Furthermore,this result is extended to the output feedback case where only the output information of each agent can be obtained.A local observer is constructed to estimate the unmeasurable states.Then,cooperative iterative learning controllers,based on the relative observed states of neighboring agents,are devised.For both cases,it is shown that the multi-agent systems whose communication topologies contain a spanning tree can reach synchronization with the dynamic leader,and meanwhile identify the unknown input of the dynamic leader using distributed iterative learning laws.An illustrative example is provided to verify the proposed control schemes.展开更多
The existing containment control has been widely developed for several years, but ignores the case for large-scale cooperation. The strong coupling of large-scale networks will increase the costs of system detection a...The existing containment control has been widely developed for several years, but ignores the case for large-scale cooperation. The strong coupling of large-scale networks will increase the costs of system detection and maintenance. Therefore, this paper is concerned with an extensional containment control issue, hierarchical containment control. It aims to enable a multitude of followers achieving a novel cooperation in the convex hull shaped by multiple leaders. Firstly, by constructing the three-layer topology, large-scale networks are decoupled. Then,under the condition of directed spanning group-tree, a class of dynamic hierarchical containment control protocol is designed such that the novel group-consensus behavior in the convex hull can be realized. Moreover, the definitions of coupling strength coefficients and the group-consensus parameter in the proposed dynamic hierarchical control protocol enhance the adjustability of systems. Compared with the existing containment control strategy, the proposed hierarchical containment control strategy improves dynamic control performance. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hierarchical control protocol.展开更多
This paper studies the passivity-based consensus analysis and synthesis problems for a class of stochastic multi-agent systems with switching topologies.Based on Lyapunov methods,stochastic theory,and graph theory,new...This paper studies the passivity-based consensus analysis and synthesis problems for a class of stochastic multi-agent systems with switching topologies.Based on Lyapunov methods,stochastic theory,and graph theory,new different storage Lyapunov functions are proposed to derive sufficient conditions on mean-square exponential consensus and stochastic passivity for multi-agent systems under two different switching cases,respectively.By designing passive time-varying consensus protocols,the solvability conditions for the passivity-based consensus protocol synthesis problem,i.e.,passification,are derived based on linearization techniques.Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.展开更多
This paper considers the human-in-the-loop leader-following consensus control problem of multi-agent systems(MASs)with unknown matched nonlinear functions and actuator faults.It is assumed that a human operator contro...This paper considers the human-in-the-loop leader-following consensus control problem of multi-agent systems(MASs)with unknown matched nonlinear functions and actuator faults.It is assumed that a human operator controls the MASs via sending the command signal to a non-autonomous leader which generates the desired trajectory.Moreover,the leader’s input is nonzero and not available to all followers.By using neural networks and fault estimators to approximate unknown nonlinear dynamics and identify the actuator faults,respectively,the neighborhood observer-based neural fault-tolerant controller with dynamic coupling gains is designed.It is proved that the state of each follower can synchronize with the leader’s state under a directed graph and all signals in the closed-loop system are guaranteed to be cooperatively uniformly ultimately bounded.Finally,simulation results are presented for verifying the effectiveness of the proposed control method.展开更多
In this paper,the leader–follower consensus of feedforward nonlinear multi-agent systems is achieved by designing the distributed output feedback controllers with a time-varying gain.The agents dynamics are assumed t...In this paper,the leader–follower consensus of feedforward nonlinear multi-agent systems is achieved by designing the distributed output feedback controllers with a time-varying gain.The agents dynamics are assumed to be in upper triangular structure and satisfy Lipschitz conditions with an unknown constant multiplied by a time-varying function.A time-varying gain,which increases monotonously and tends to infinity,is proposed to construct a compensator for each follower agent.Based on a directed communication topology,the distributed output feedback controller with a time-varying gain is designed for each follower agent by only using the output information of the follower and its neighbors.It is proved by the Lyapunov theorem that the leader–follower consensus of the multi-agent system is achieved by the proposed consensus protocol.The effectiveness of the proposed time-varying gain method is demonstrated by a circuit system.展开更多
This paper investigates the event-triggered security consensus problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems(MASs)under denial-of-service(Do S)attacks over an undirected graph.A novel adaptive memory observer-based anti-d...This paper investigates the event-triggered security consensus problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems(MASs)under denial-of-service(Do S)attacks over an undirected graph.A novel adaptive memory observer-based anti-disturbance control scheme is presented to improve the observer accuracy by adding a buffer for the system output measurements.Meanwhile,this control scheme can also provide more reasonable control signals when Do S attacks occur.To save network resources,an adaptive memory event-triggered mechanism(AMETM)is also proposed and Zeno behavior is excluded.It is worth mentioning that the AMETM's updates do not require global information.Then,the observer and controller gains are obtained by using the linear matrix inequality(LMI)technique.Finally,simulation examples show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.展开更多
This paper investigates the consensus problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) via the sliding mode control (SMC) approach. The velocity of each agent is assumed to be unmeasurable. A second-order ...This paper investigates the consensus problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) via the sliding mode control (SMC) approach. The velocity of each agent is assumed to be unmeasurable. A second-order sliding mode observer is designed to estimate the velocity. Then a distributed discontinuous control law based on first-order SMC is presented to solve the consensus problem. Moreover, to overcome the chatting problem, two controllers based on the boundary layer method and the super-twisting algorithm respectively are presented. It is shown that the MASs will achieve consensus under some given conditions. Some examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control laws.展开更多
This study concentrates on solving the output consensus problem for a class of heterogeneous uncertain nonstrict-feedback nonlinear multi-agent systems under switching-directed communication topologies,in which all fo...This study concentrates on solving the output consensus problem for a class of heterogeneous uncertain nonstrict-feedback nonlinear multi-agent systems under switching-directed communication topologies,in which all followers are subjected to multi-type input constraints such as unknown asymmetric saturation,unknown dead-zone and their integration.A unified representation is presented to overcome the difficulties originating from multi-agent input constraints.Moreover,the uncertain system functions in a non-lower triangular form and the interaction terms among agents are dealt with by exploiting the fuzzy logic systems and their special property.Furthermore,by introducing a nonlinear filter to alleviate the problem of“explosion of complexity”during the backstepping design,a distributed common adaptive control protocol is proposed to ensure that the synchronization errors converge to a small neighborhood of the origin despite the existence of multiple input constraints and arbitrary switching communication topologies.Both stability analysis and simulation results are conducted to show the effectiveness and performance of the proposed control methodology.展开更多
In this paper, we study the consensus problem for a class of linear multi-agent systems(MASs) with consideration of input saturation under the self-triggered mechanism. In the context of discrete-time systems, a self-...In this paper, we study the consensus problem for a class of linear multi-agent systems(MASs) with consideration of input saturation under the self-triggered mechanism. In the context of discrete-time systems, a self-triggered strategy is developed to determine the time interval between the adjacent triggers. The triggering condition is designed by using the current sampled consensus error. Furthermore, the consensus control protocol is designed by means of a state feedback approach. It is shown that the considered multi-agent systems can reach consensus with the presented algorithm. Some sufficient conditions are proposed in the form of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs) to show the positively invariant property of the domain of attraction(DOA). Moreover, some sufficient conditions of controller synthesis are provided to enlarge the volume of the DOA and obtain the control gain matrix. A numerical example is simulated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis results.展开更多
Distributed adaptive predefined-time bipartite containment for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems are studied with actuator faults.The communication topology of multi-agent systems is fixed and dire...Distributed adaptive predefined-time bipartite containment for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems are studied with actuator faults.The communication topology of multi-agent systems is fixed and directed.To ensure that followers can reach the convex hull spanned by leaders under the conditions of actuator faults,the sliding mode method is introduced.Control protocol for multi-agent systems demonstrates its effectiveness.Finally,simulations are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to linearly parameterized uncertainty and disturbance. The problem is solved by integrating t...This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to linearly parameterized uncertainty and disturbance. The problem is solved by integrating the adaptive control technique and the adaptive distributed observer method. The design procedure is illustrated by an example with a group of Van der Pol oscillators as the followers and a harmonic system as the leader.展开更多
Formation control of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems using directed switching topology is considered in this work via a reduced-order observer, in which a formation control protocol is proposed under the assu...Formation control of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems using directed switching topology is considered in this work via a reduced-order observer, in which a formation control protocol is proposed under the assumption that each directed communication topology has a directed spanning tree. By utilizing the relative outputs of neighboring agents, a reduced-order observer is designed for each following agent. A multi-step control algorithm is established based on the Lyapunov method and the modified discrete-time algebraic Riccati equation. A sufficient condition is given to ensure that the discrete-time linear multi-agent system can achieve the expected leader-following formation.Finally, numerical examples are provided so as to demonstrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.展开更多
This paper investigates the distributed fault-tolerant containment control(FTCC)problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems(MASs)under a directed network topology.The proposed control framework which is independent on th...This paper investigates the distributed fault-tolerant containment control(FTCC)problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems(MASs)under a directed network topology.The proposed control framework which is independent on the global information about the communication topology consists of two layers.Different from most existing distributed fault-tolerant control(FTC)protocols where the fault in one agent may propagate over network,the developed control method can eliminate the phenomenon of fault propagation.Based on the hierarchical control strategy,the FTCC problem with a directed graph can be simplified to the distributed containment control of the upper layer and the fault-tolerant tracking control of the lower layer.Finally,simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control protocol.展开更多
The output regulation of linear multi-agent systems with partial unmeasurable agents is investigated in this paper. All the agents except the exosystem can be classified into two groups. Agents in the first group can ...The output regulation of linear multi-agent systems with partial unmeasurable agents is investigated in this paper. All the agents except the exosystem can be classified into two groups. Agents in the first group can be measured by themselves and their neighbors. State variables are not fully accessible for direct communication and full order Luenberger observers are constructed for the unmeasurable agents. We give a state feedback control law to solve the output regulation problem under the communication topologies based on both measurable and unmeasurable agents. The heterogeneous agents' synchronization problem is a general case of our results. Finally, examples are utilized to show the effectiveness of the obtained results.展开更多
In this paper, we study the leader-following rendezvous and flocking problems for a class of second-order nonlinear multi- agent systems, which contain both external disturbances and plant uncertainties. What differs ...In this paper, we study the leader-following rendezvous and flocking problems for a class of second-order nonlinear multi- agent systems, which contain both external disturbances and plant uncertainties. What differs our problems from the conventional leader-following consensus problem is that we need to preserve the connectivity of the communication graph instead of assuming the connectivity of the communication graph. By integrating the adaptive control technique, the distributed observer method and the potential function method, the two problems are both solved. Finally, we apply our results to a group of van der Pol oscillators.展开更多
For a class of high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with input hysteresis,an adaptive consensus output-feedback quantized control scheme with full state constraints is investigated.The major properties of the prop...For a class of high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with input hysteresis,an adaptive consensus output-feedback quantized control scheme with full state constraints is investigated.The major properties of the proposed control scheme are:1)According to the different hysteresis input characteristics of each agent in the multi-agent system,a hysteresis quantization inverse compensator is designed to eliminate the influence of hysteresis characteristics on the system while ensuring that the quantized signal maintains the desired value.2)A barrier Lyapunov function is introduced for the first time in the hysteretic multi-agent system.By constructing state constraint control strategy for the hysteretic multi-agent system,it ensures that all the states of the system are always maintained within a predetermined range.3)The designed adaptive consensus output-feedback quantization control scheme allows the hysteretic system to have unknown parameters and unknown disturbance,and ensures that the input signal transmitted between agents is the quantization value,and the introduced quantizer is implemented under the condition that only its sector bound property is required.The stability analysis has proved that all signals of the closed-loop are semi-globally uniformly bounded.The Star Sim hardware-in-the-loop simulation certificates the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive quantized control scheme.展开更多
This paper investigates adaptive containment control for a class of fractional-order multi-agent systems(FOMASs)with time-varying parameters and disturbances.By using the bounded estimation method,the difficulty gener...This paper investigates adaptive containment control for a class of fractional-order multi-agent systems(FOMASs)with time-varying parameters and disturbances.By using the bounded estimation method,the difficulty generated by the timevarying parameters and disturbances is overcome.The command filter is introduced to solve the complexity problem inherent in adaptive backstepping control.Meanwhile,in order to eliminate the effect of filter errors,a novel distributed error compensating scheme is constructed,in which only the local information from the neighbor agents is utilized.Then,a distributed adaptive containment control scheme for FOMASs is developed based on backstepping to guarantee that the outputs of all the followers are steered to the convex hull spanned by the leaders.Based on the extension of Barbalat's lemma to fractional-order integrals,it can be proven that the containment errors and the compensating signals have asymptotic convergence.Finally,three simulation examples are given to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control method.展开更多
This study focuses on implementing consensus tracking using both open-loop and closed-loop Dα-type iterative learning control(ILC)schemes,for fractional-order multi-agent systems(FOMASs)with state-delays.The desired ...This study focuses on implementing consensus tracking using both open-loop and closed-loop Dα-type iterative learning control(ILC)schemes,for fractional-order multi-agent systems(FOMASs)with state-delays.The desired trajectory is constructed by introducing a virtual leader,and the fixed communication topology is considered and only a subset of followers can access the desired trajectory.For each control scheme,one controller is designed for one agent individually.According to the tracking error between the agent and the virtual leader,and the tracking errors between the agent and neighboring agents during the last iteration(for open-loop scheme)or the current running(for closed-loop scheme),each controller continuously corrects the last control law by a combination of communication weights in the topology to obtain the ideal control law.Through the rigorous analysis,sufficient conditions for both control schemes are established to ensure that all agents can achieve the asymptotically consistent output along the iteration axis within a finite-time interval.Sufficient numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the control schemes,and provide some meaningful comparison results.展开更多
文摘This article investigates the time-varying output group formation tracking control(GFTC)problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems(HMASs)under switching topologies.The objective is to design a distributed control strategy that enables the outputs of the followers to form the desired sub-formations and track the outputs of the leader in each subgroup.Firstly,novel distributed observers are developed to estimate the states of the leaders under switching topologies.Then,GFTC protocols are designed based on the proposed observers.It is shown that with the distributed protocol,the GFTC problem for HMASs under switching topologies is solved if the average dwell time associated with the switching topologies is larger than a fixed threshold.Finally,an example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61473136 and 61174021)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.JUSRP51322B)the 111 Project(Grant No.B12018)
文摘This paper studies the consensus problems for multi-agent systems with general linear and nonlinear dynamics. The leaderless and leader-following consensus problems are investigated respectively. Contraction theory is employed to gen- erate some sufficient conditions for testing the agents reaching consensus. Under these conditions and certain assumptions, the trajectories of multi-agent systems in directed topology will converge to each other. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results,
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61273137,51209026,61074017)the Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department(L2013202)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(3132013037,3132014047,3132014321)
文摘This paper considers the cooperative tracking of linear multi-agent systems with a dynamic leader whose input informa-tion is unavailable to any followers.Cooperative iterative learning controllers,based on the relative state information of neighboring agents,are proposed for tracking the dynamic leader over directed communication topologies.Stability and convergence of the proposed controllers are established using Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals.Furthermore,this result is extended to the output feedback case where only the output information of each agent can be obtained.A local observer is constructed to estimate the unmeasurable states.Then,cooperative iterative learning controllers,based on the relative observed states of neighboring agents,are devised.For both cases,it is shown that the multi-agent systems whose communication topologies contain a spanning tree can reach synchronization with the dynamic leader,and meanwhile identify the unknown input of the dynamic leader using distributed iterative learning laws.An illustrative example is provided to verify the proposed control schemes.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U22A20221,62073064)in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China(N2204007)。
文摘The existing containment control has been widely developed for several years, but ignores the case for large-scale cooperation. The strong coupling of large-scale networks will increase the costs of system detection and maintenance. Therefore, this paper is concerned with an extensional containment control issue, hierarchical containment control. It aims to enable a multitude of followers achieving a novel cooperation in the convex hull shaped by multiple leaders. Firstly, by constructing the three-layer topology, large-scale networks are decoupled. Then,under the condition of directed spanning group-tree, a class of dynamic hierarchical containment control protocol is designed such that the novel group-consensus behavior in the convex hull can be realized. Moreover, the definitions of coupling strength coefficients and the group-consensus parameter in the proposed dynamic hierarchical control protocol enhance the adjustability of systems. Compared with the existing containment control strategy, the proposed hierarchical containment control strategy improves dynamic control performance. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hierarchical control protocol.
基金supported by Singapore MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant RG60/12(2012-T1-001-158)
文摘This paper studies the passivity-based consensus analysis and synthesis problems for a class of stochastic multi-agent systems with switching topologies.Based on Lyapunov methods,stochastic theory,and graph theory,new different storage Lyapunov functions are proposed to derive sufficient conditions on mean-square exponential consensus and stochastic passivity for multi-agent systems under two different switching cases,respectively.By designing passive time-varying consensus protocols,the solvability conditions for the passivity-based consensus protocol synthesis problem,i.e.,passification,are derived based on linearization techniques.Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
基金This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62033003,62003098)the Local Innovative and Research Teams Project of Guangdong Special Support Program(2019BT02X353)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2019M662813,2020T130124).
文摘This paper considers the human-in-the-loop leader-following consensus control problem of multi-agent systems(MASs)with unknown matched nonlinear functions and actuator faults.It is assumed that a human operator controls the MASs via sending the command signal to a non-autonomous leader which generates the desired trajectory.Moreover,the leader’s input is nonzero and not available to all followers.By using neural networks and fault estimators to approximate unknown nonlinear dynamics and identify the actuator faults,respectively,the neighborhood observer-based neural fault-tolerant controller with dynamic coupling gains is designed.It is proved that the state of each follower can synchronize with the leader’s state under a directed graph and all signals in the closed-loop system are guaranteed to be cooperatively uniformly ultimately bounded.Finally,simulation results are presented for verifying the effectiveness of the proposed control method.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61973189,62073190)the Research Fund for the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province of China(No.ts20190905)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(No.ZR2020ZD25).
文摘In this paper,the leader–follower consensus of feedforward nonlinear multi-agent systems is achieved by designing the distributed output feedback controllers with a time-varying gain.The agents dynamics are assumed to be in upper triangular structure and satisfy Lipschitz conditions with an unknown constant multiplied by a time-varying function.A time-varying gain,which increases monotonously and tends to infinity,is proposed to construct a compensator for each follower agent.Based on a directed communication topology,the distributed output feedback controller with a time-varying gain is designed for each follower agent by only using the output information of the follower and its neighbors.It is proved by the Lyapunov theorem that the leader–follower consensus of the multi-agent system is achieved by the proposed consensus protocol.The effectiveness of the proposed time-varying gain method is demonstrated by a circuit system.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61773056)the Scientific and Technological Innovation Foundation of Shunde Graduate School,University of Science and Technology Beijing(USTB)(BK19AE018)+2 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of USTB(FRF-TP-20-09B,230201606500061,FRF-DF-20-35,FRF-BD-19-002A)supported by Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation(LD21F030001)supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korea government(Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology)(NRF-2020R1A2C1005449)。
文摘This paper investigates the event-triggered security consensus problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems(MASs)under denial-of-service(Do S)attacks over an undirected graph.A novel adaptive memory observer-based anti-disturbance control scheme is presented to improve the observer accuracy by adding a buffer for the system output measurements.Meanwhile,this control scheme can also provide more reasonable control signals when Do S attacks occur.To save network resources,an adaptive memory event-triggered mechanism(AMETM)is also proposed and Zeno behavior is excluded.It is worth mentioning that the AMETM's updates do not require global information.Then,the observer and controller gains are obtained by using the linear matrix inequality(LMI)technique.Finally,simulation examples show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6137510561403334)
文摘This paper investigates the consensus problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) via the sliding mode control (SMC) approach. The velocity of each agent is assumed to be unmeasurable. A second-order sliding mode observer is designed to estimate the velocity. Then a distributed discontinuous control law based on first-order SMC is presented to solve the consensus problem. Moreover, to overcome the chatting problem, two controllers based on the boundary layer method and the super-twisting algorithm respectively are presented. It is shown that the MASs will achieve consensus under some given conditions. Some examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control laws.
基金supported by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation(No.71871135)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.222201714055,222201717006).
文摘This study concentrates on solving the output consensus problem for a class of heterogeneous uncertain nonstrict-feedback nonlinear multi-agent systems under switching-directed communication topologies,in which all followers are subjected to multi-type input constraints such as unknown asymmetric saturation,unknown dead-zone and their integration.A unified representation is presented to overcome the difficulties originating from multi-agent input constraints.Moreover,the uncertain system functions in a non-lower triangular form and the interaction terms among agents are dealt with by exploiting the fuzzy logic systems and their special property.Furthermore,by introducing a nonlinear filter to alleviate the problem of“explosion of complexity”during the backstepping design,a distributed common adaptive control protocol is proposed to ensure that the synchronization errors converge to a small neighborhood of the origin despite the existence of multiple input constraints and arbitrary switching communication topologies.Both stability analysis and simulation results are conducted to show the effectiveness and performance of the proposed control methodology.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61921004,61520106009,U1713209,61973074)the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
文摘In this paper, we study the consensus problem for a class of linear multi-agent systems(MASs) with consideration of input saturation under the self-triggered mechanism. In the context of discrete-time systems, a self-triggered strategy is developed to determine the time interval between the adjacent triggers. The triggering condition is designed by using the current sampled consensus error. Furthermore, the consensus control protocol is designed by means of a state feedback approach. It is shown that the considered multi-agent systems can reach consensus with the presented algorithm. Some sufficient conditions are proposed in the form of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs) to show the positively invariant property of the domain of attraction(DOA). Moreover, some sufficient conditions of controller synthesis are provided to enlarge the volume of the DOA and obtain the control gain matrix. A numerical example is simulated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis results.
基金2024 Jiangsu Province Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Project(funded by Yancheng Science and Technology Association)The 2024 Yancheng Key Research and Development Plan(Social Development)projects include“Research and Application of Multi-Agent Offline Distributed Trust Perception Virtual Wireless Sensor Network Algorithm”and“Research and Application of a New Type of Fishery Ship Safety Production Monitoring Equipment.”。
文摘Distributed adaptive predefined-time bipartite containment for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems are studied with actuator faults.The communication topology of multi-agent systems is fixed and directed.To ensure that followers can reach the convex hull spanned by leaders under the conditions of actuator faults,the sliding mode method is introduced.Control protocol for multi-agent systems demonstrates its effectiveness.Finally,simulations are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
文摘This paper studies the leader-following consensus problem for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to linearly parameterized uncertainty and disturbance. The problem is solved by integrating the adaptive control technique and the adaptive distributed observer method. The design procedure is illustrated by an example with a group of Van der Pol oscillators as the followers and a harmonic system as the leader.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61573200,61973175)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Nankai University(63201196)。
文摘Formation control of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems using directed switching topology is considered in this work via a reduced-order observer, in which a formation control protocol is proposed under the assumption that each directed communication topology has a directed spanning tree. By utilizing the relative outputs of neighboring agents, a reduced-order observer is designed for each following agent. A multi-step control algorithm is established based on the Lyapunov method and the modified discrete-time algebraic Riccati equation. A sufficient condition is given to ensure that the discrete-time linear multi-agent system can achieve the expected leader-following formation.Finally, numerical examples are provided so as to demonstrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61873056,61621004,61420106016)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China(N2004001,N2004002,N182608004)the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries in China(2013ZCX01)。
文摘This paper investigates the distributed fault-tolerant containment control(FTCC)problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems(MASs)under a directed network topology.The proposed control framework which is independent on the global information about the communication topology consists of two layers.Different from most existing distributed fault-tolerant control(FTC)protocols where the fault in one agent may propagate over network,the developed control method can eliminate the phenomenon of fault propagation.Based on the hierarchical control strategy,the FTCC problem with a directed graph can be simplified to the distributed containment control of the upper layer and the fault-tolerant tracking control of the lower layer.Finally,simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control protocol.
基金Proiect supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 61034005）.
文摘The output regulation of linear multi-agent systems with partial unmeasurable agents is investigated in this paper. All the agents except the exosystem can be classified into two groups. Agents in the first group can be measured by themselves and their neighbors. State variables are not fully accessible for direct communication and full order Luenberger observers are constructed for the unmeasurable agents. We give a state feedback control law to solve the output regulation problem under the communication topologies based on both measurable and unmeasurable agents. The heterogeneous agents' synchronization problem is a general case of our results. Finally, examples are utilized to show the effectiveness of the obtained results.
文摘In this paper, we study the leader-following rendezvous and flocking problems for a class of second-order nonlinear multi- agent systems, which contain both external disturbances and plant uncertainties. What differs our problems from the conventional leader-following consensus problem is that we need to preserve the connectivity of the communication graph instead of assuming the connectivity of the communication graph. By integrating the adaptive control technique, the distributed observer method and the potential function method, the two problems are both solved. Finally, we apply our results to a group of van der Pol oscillators.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61673101,61973131,61733006,U1813201)the Science and Technology Project of Jilin Province(20210509053RQ)the Fourteenth Five Year Science Research Plan of Jilin Province(JJKH20220115KJ)。
文摘For a class of high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with input hysteresis,an adaptive consensus output-feedback quantized control scheme with full state constraints is investigated.The major properties of the proposed control scheme are:1)According to the different hysteresis input characteristics of each agent in the multi-agent system,a hysteresis quantization inverse compensator is designed to eliminate the influence of hysteresis characteristics on the system while ensuring that the quantized signal maintains the desired value.2)A barrier Lyapunov function is introduced for the first time in the hysteretic multi-agent system.By constructing state constraint control strategy for the hysteretic multi-agent system,it ensures that all the states of the system are always maintained within a predetermined range.3)The designed adaptive consensus output-feedback quantization control scheme allows the hysteretic system to have unknown parameters and unknown disturbance,and ensures that the input signal transmitted between agents is the quantization value,and the introduced quantizer is implemented under the condition that only its sector bound property is required.The stability analysis has proved that all signals of the closed-loop are semi-globally uniformly bounded.The Star Sim hardware-in-the-loop simulation certificates the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive quantized control scheme.
基金National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0702200)National Natural Science Foundation of China(61627809,62173080)Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program(XLYC1801005)。
文摘This paper investigates adaptive containment control for a class of fractional-order multi-agent systems(FOMASs)with time-varying parameters and disturbances.By using the bounded estimation method,the difficulty generated by the timevarying parameters and disturbances is overcome.The command filter is introduced to solve the complexity problem inherent in adaptive backstepping control.Meanwhile,in order to eliminate the effect of filter errors,a novel distributed error compensating scheme is constructed,in which only the local information from the neighbor agents is utilized.Then,a distributed adaptive containment control scheme for FOMASs is developed based on backstepping to guarantee that the outputs of all the followers are steered to the convex hull spanned by the leaders.Based on the extension of Barbalat's lemma to fractional-order integrals,it can be proven that the containment errors and the compensating signals have asymptotic convergence.Finally,three simulation examples are given to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51777170)the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(2020JM-151)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(3102020ZX006)。
文摘This study focuses on implementing consensus tracking using both open-loop and closed-loop Dα-type iterative learning control(ILC)schemes,for fractional-order multi-agent systems(FOMASs)with state-delays.The desired trajectory is constructed by introducing a virtual leader,and the fixed communication topology is considered and only a subset of followers can access the desired trajectory.For each control scheme,one controller is designed for one agent individually.According to the tracking error between the agent and the virtual leader,and the tracking errors between the agent and neighboring agents during the last iteration(for open-loop scheme)or the current running(for closed-loop scheme),each controller continuously corrects the last control law by a combination of communication weights in the topology to obtain the ideal control law.Through the rigorous analysis,sufficient conditions for both control schemes are established to ensure that all agents can achieve the asymptotically consistent output along the iteration axis within a finite-time interval.Sufficient numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the control schemes,and provide some meaningful comparison results.
