Observer-based prescribed-time consensus control for heterogeneous multi-agent systems under directed graphs

This work studies the prescribed-time robust consensus tracking problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems over directed graphs. Aiming at multi-agent systems with a static leader and only matched disturbances, a distributed observer-based consensus algorithm is developed, to ensure that the tracking errors converge to zero accurately in prescribed time. For the case of multi-agent systems with a dynamic leader and mismatched/matched disturbances, an adaptive strategy based on a distributed observer and a disturbance observer is designed by the dynamic damping reciprocal technology. Such strategy can avoid the numerical singularity, adapt to the situation that the upper bounds of the disturbances are unknown, and assure that the tracking errors converge to an adjustable neighborhood of zero within prescribed time. Finally, simulations are given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies.     

Event-triggered consensus control for uncertain multi-agent systems with external disturbance

This paper investigates the event-triggered consensus control for a general linear multi-agent system with model uncertainties and external disturbances. A consensus protocol is proposed using the local state information at asynchronous event-triggering time instants, where each agent determines when to perform sampling and control updating using the designed event-triggered condition. Then the robust consensus condition and the feedback matrix design method are derived to make the uncertain multi-agent system reach consensus with a desired disturbance attenuation ability. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the Zeno behaviour will never occur by giving the lower bound of inter-event time intervals. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the obtained theoretical results, with the comparison simulation conducted by using the periodic triggering strategy.     

Consensus of linear multi-agent systems with exogenous disturbance generated from heterogeneous exosystems

This paper addresses the consensus tracking problem for multi-agent linear systems subject to exogenous disturbances generated from heterogeneous exosystems. For the case that the disturbances are generated from linear heterogeneous exosystems, a linear disturbance observer and distributed control law are proposed, and sufficient condition for consensus tracking is established by combining the input-to-state stability and Lyapunov analysis methods. For the case when the disturbances are generated from non-linear heterogeneous exosystems, a non-linear disturbance observer is presented to estimate such disturbance by using the dynamic gain technique; then, a distributed control law is designed, and sufficient condition is also presented for achieving consensus tracking. Two simulation examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed consensus protocols.     

Robust consensus algorithm for second-order multi-agent systems with external disturbances

This article investigates the problem of robust consensus for second-order multi-agent systems with external disturbances. Based on a non-smooth backstepping control technique, a class of novel continuous non-smooth consensus algorithms are proposed for the multi-agent network with/without communication delays. The controller design is divided into two steps. First, for the kinematic subsystem, the velocity is regarded as a virtual input and designed such that the states consensus can be achieved asymptotically. Then for the dynamic subsystem, a finite-time control law is designed such that the virtual velocity can be tracked by the real velocity in a finite time. Under the proposed control law, it is shown that if the communication topology graph contains a directed spanning tree, the states consensus can be achieved asymptotically in the absence of disturbances. In the presence of disturbances, the steady-state errors of any two agents can reach a small region around the origin. By building a relationship between control parameters and the bound of steady tracking errors, it is demonstrated that the disturbance rejection performance of the resulting closed-loop system can be enhanced by adjusting the fractional power in the non-smooth controller. Finally, an example is given to verify the efficiency of the proposed method.     

高阶离散多智能体系统在参数不确定和带外部干扰下的鲁棒H∞一致性控制

研究了高阶离散多智能体系统的在参数不确定和带外部干扰下的H_∞鲁棒一致性控制问题,同时提出线性分布式一致性协议.首先将该问题转化为一组不确定系统的H_∞鲁棒控制问题.其次推导出线性矩阵不等式在参数为γ的H_∞鲁棒一致性意义下的充分条件.第三,给出了所提出一致性协议在不带外部干扰,参数不确定的高阶离散线性多智能体系统中的收敛效果.最后,通过包含和不包含参数不确定系统的对比仿真实验说明了理论结果的正确性和有效性.     

带有完全分布式观测器的多智能体系统自适应容错一致性

针对一类同时带有执行器故障,未知非线性动态和非匹配干扰的多智能体系统,本文提出一种新的自适应容错控制方案.首先,设计一种适用于有向切换拓扑的完全分布式观测器估计领导者的信息,将一致性问题转化为局部的信号跟踪问题.其次,拆解转化后的误差系统为两个耦合的子系统,实现非匹配干扰与匹配因子分离.然后,利用径向基神经网络近似非线...     

Robust consensus of multi-agent systems with time-delays and exogenous disturbances

In this paper, the robust consensus of multi-agent dynamical systems with time-delays and exogenous disturbances is studied. A pinning control strategy is designed for a parts of agents of the multi-agent systems without disturbances, and this pinning control can bring multiple agents?? states to an expected consensus track. Under the effects of the disturbances, disturbance observers based control (DOBC) are developed for disturbances generated by an exogenous system to estimate the disturbances. Asymptotical consensus of the multi-agent systems with disturbances under the composite controller can be achieved for fixed and switching topologies. Finally, by applying an example of multi-agent systems with switching topologies and exogenous disturbances, the design of the parameters of DOBC are illuminated.     

基于观测器的多智能体系统一致性控制与故障检测

针对一类受到未知干扰的非线性多智能体系统,提出了一种鲁棒一致性控制与故障检测算法.首先,针对每个智能体系统设计了一个未知输入非线性观测器.然后,基于观测器的状态估计信息,设计了鲁棒一致性控制协议.控制协议保证了给定的干扰抑制性能指标.接着,考虑智能体出现故障的情形,采用自适应阈值法,提出了一种分布式故障检测算法.最后,以多个直流电机驱动的单摆系统为例进行了仿真实验,仿真结果表明了一致性控制与故障检测算法的有效性.     

Fixed-Time Output Consensus Tracking for High-Order Multi-Agent Systems With Directed Network Topology and Packet Dropout

This paper studies the problem of fixed-time output consensus tracking for high-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with directed network topology with consideration of data packet dropout. First, a predictive compensation based distributed observer is presented to compensate for packet dropout and estimate the leader’s states. Next, stability analysis is conducted to prove fixed time convergence of the developed distributed observer. Then, adaptive fixed-time dynamic surface control is designed to counteract mismatched disturbances introduced by observation error, and stabilize the tracking error system within a fixed time, which overcomes explosion of complexity problem and singularity problem. Finally, simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the consensus tracking strategy proposed. The contribution of this paper is to provide a fixed-time distributed observer design method for high-order MAS under directed graph subject to packet dropout, and a novel fixed-time control strategy which can handle mismatched disturbances and overcome explosion of complexity and singularity problem.      

运动平台上光电跟踪系统的自抗扰控制器设计

针对运动平台上光电跟踪系统既要有很强的抗扰动性能,又要能快速跟踪运动目标的特点,设计了稳定平台的自抗扰控制器.通过对闭环带宽的分析,改进了自抗扰控制器的结构,使闭环系统有较高的带宽.设计了扩张状态观测器对平台的扰动进行观测、补偿,并分析了系统鲁棒稳定性对扩张状态观测器的限制条件.实验结果显示,与采用PI控制相比,自抗扰控制器的稳定跟踪能力和扰动抑制能力都有一定的提高.其中,对阶跃信号的稳态跟踪误差不到PI的一半,而在2Hz附近扰动抑制比有6dB的提高.     

基于干扰观测器的二阶多智能体系统模型参考一致性

针对受到外部干扰影响的二阶多智能系统, 提出一种新型干扰观测器的设计方案.在只有部分智能体能接收到参考模型信 号的条件下, 研究受到不同外系统生成干扰信号影响的二阶多智能体系统模型参考一致性问题.针对干扰信号由线性外系统和非线性外系 统生成的情况, 分别设计干扰观测器.进一步提出分布式控制协议, 所提出的一致性协议可以有效地抑制干扰, 最终实现多智能体 系统的模型参考一致性.仿真算例验证了所提出方法的有效性.     

Robust consensus tracking of a class of second-order multi-agent dynamic systems

In this paper, we study the problem of robust consensus tracking for a class of second-order multi-agent dynamic systems with disturbances and unmodeled agent dynamics. Contrary to previous approaches, we design continuous distributed consensus protocols to enable global asymptotic consensus tracking. Our focus is on consensus protocol design and stability analysis which also leads to the derivation of sufficient conditions for consensus tracking. We first consider the case of undirected information exchange with a symmetric and positive definite information-exchange matrix. We develop an identifier for each agent to estimate the unknown disturbances and unmodeled agent dynamics. Based on the identifier, we develop a consensus tracking protocol to enable global asymptotic consensus tracking using local information obtained from neighboring agents. The closed-loop stability is proven using Lyapunov analysis theory and an invariance-like theorem. We then extend the approach to the case of directed information exchange, whose information-exchange matrix is only of full rank so that the approach for undirected graphs cannot be directly applied. We show that global asymptotic consensus tracking can still be enabled under the new derived sufficient conditions by designing a new identifier, which utilizes the estimated information exchanged from neighboring agents, and constructing a new Lyapunov function. Examples and numerical simulations are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed robust consensus tracking method.     

Robust Tracking Control for Self-balancing Mobile Robots Using Disturbance Observer

In this paper, a robust tracking control scheme based on nonlinear disturbance observer is developed for the self-balancing mobile robot with external unknown disturbances. A desired velocity control law is firstly designed using the Lyapunov analysis method and the arctan function. To improve the tracking control performance, a nonlinear disturbance observer is developed to estimate the unknown disturbance of the self-balancing mobile robot. Using the output of the designed disturbance observer, the robust tracking control scheme is presented employing the sliding mode method for the selfbalancing mobile robot. Numerical simulation results further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed robust tracking control scheme for the self-balancing mobile robot subject to external unknown disturbances.      

Novel distributed robust adaptive consensus protocols for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs and external disturbances

This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs and external unmatched disturbances. Novel distributed adaptive consensus protocols are proposed to achieve leader–follower consensus for any directed graph containing a directed spanning tree with the leader as the root node and leaderless consensus for strongly connected directed graphs. It is pointed out that the adaptive protocols involve undesirable parameter drift phenomenon when bounded external disturbances exist. By using the σ modification technique, distributed robust adaptive consensus protocols are designed to guarantee the ultimate boundedness of both the consensus error and the adaptive coupling weights in the presence of external disturbances. All the adaptive protocols in this paper are fully distributed, relying on only the agent dynamics and the relative states of neighbouring agents.     

Leader–follower consensus of linear multi-agent systems with unknown external disturbances

This paper addresses the leader–follower consensus tracking problem for multi-agent systems with identical general linear dynamics and unknown external disturbances. First, a distributed extended state observer is proposed, where both the local states and disturbance of each agent are estimated simultaneously by using the relative output information between neighbors. Then a consensus algorithm is proposed for each agent based on the relative estimated states between neighbors and its own disturbance estimate. It is shown that, with the proposed observer-based consensus algorithm, the leader–follower consensus problem can be solved. Finally, we present a simulation example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

Adaptive tracking control of leader-following linear multi-agent systems with external disturbances

In this paper, the consensus problem for leader-following linear multi-agent systems with external disturbances is investigated. Brownian motions are used to describe exogenous disturbances. A distributed tracking controller based on Riccati inequalities with an adaptive law for adjusting coupling weights between neighbouring agents is designed for leader-following multi-agent systems under fixed and switching topologies. In traditional distributed static controllers, the coupling weights depend on the communication graph. However, coupling weights associated with the feedback gain matrix in our method are updated by state errors between neighbouring agents. We further present the stability analysis of leader-following multi-agent systems with stochastic disturbances under switching topology. Most traditional literature requires the graph to be connected all the time, while the communication graph is only assumed to be jointly connected in this paper. The design technique is based on Riccati inequalities and algebraic graph theory. Finally, simulations are given to show the validity of our method.     

无抖振离散重复控制器的设计与实现

针对周期参考/干扰信号下的不确定离散时间系统,提出一种基于吸引律的重复控制方法,在吸引律中"嵌入"干扰抑制措施,构造理想误差动态,并基于此设计重复控制器.文中推导出单调减区域、绝对吸引层和稳态误差带边界的表达式,用于整定控制器参数和表征闭环系统的跟踪性能,并给出了跟踪误差在无干扰时收敛于原点及在干扰存在时收敛进入稳态误差带内所需最多步数的表达式.设计的重复控制器不仅能够完全抑制周期干扰信号,而且可以消除系统抖振.在电机实验装置上的应用结果表明了所提出控制方法的有效性.     

具有外部干扰的二阶多自主体系统的协同运动

为解决多自主体系统在群集运动过程受到外部干扰影响的问题,本文研究了具有外部干扰的二阶多自主体系统的分布式协同控制.本文中的外部干扰包括匹配干扰和不匹配干扰,针对系统中的匹配干扰,设计了状态观测器和干扰观测器,对系统的未知状态和干扰进行估计,并且构造了基于干扰观测器的多自主体协同控制算法.对于系统中的不匹配干扰,设计了与匹配干扰不同的干扰观测器,构造了基于主动抗干扰观测器的协同控制算法.运用矩阵论和现代控制理论等方法,研究了基于干扰观测器的二阶多自主体系统的协同控制.应用计算机仿真分别验证在多自主体系统具有匹配干扰和不匹配干扰的情况下结论的有效性,仿真结果表明,本文所设计的多自主体协同控制算法可以使跟随者最终都收敛到领导者的状态,实现了具有匹配干扰和不匹配干扰的二阶多自主体系统的状态一致性.     

Distributed consensus tracking of multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics under a reference leader

This paper investigates the distributed consensus tracking problem for multi-agent systems with Lipschitz-type dynamics under a reference leader. It is assumed that the leader state information is only available to a subset of followers, while the bounded reference input of the leader’s is unavailable to any follower. To achieve consensus tracking, a class of discontinuous protocols based on the relative information between the neighbouring agents are proposed. Furthermore, as extensions of the former result, the robust and adaptive consensus tracking problems are studied for the case where there exist parameter uncertainties and external disturbances in the network. Finally, the effectiveness of the theoretical result is demonstrated through a network of single-link manipulators.     

Robust <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Subscript>∞</Subscript> consensus control of uncertain multi-agent systems with time delays

This paper is devoted to the robust H _∞ consensus control of multi-agent systems with model parameter uncertainties and external disturbances. In particular, switching networks of multiple agents with general linear dynamics are considered, and uncertain communication delays are also taken into account. It shows that a sufficient condition in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) is derived for the robust consensus performance with a given H _∞ disturbance attenuation level, and meanwhile the unknown feedback matrix of the proposed distributed state feedback protocol is also determined. A numerical example is included to validate the theoretical results.