联合连通拓扑下的二阶多自主体系统有限时间包容控制

针对具有多领航者的二阶网络化系统群集运动问题,提出了一种有限时间收敛的包容控制算法。在此基础上,运用现代控制理论、代数图论和矩阵论等分析工具对所提出的控制算法进行理论分析,得到了当通信拓扑为动态联合连通时,二阶网络化系统在有限时间内实现群集运动的收敛条件。通过此包容控制算法,使得系统在静态拓扑和联合连通条件下均在有限时间内收敛到目标区域内。最后,应用系统仿真验证了所得结论的正确性。     

Graph-theoretic characterisations of structural controllability for multi-agent system with switching topology

This article considers the controllability problem for multi-agent systems. In particular, the structural controllability of multi-agent systems under switching topologies is investigated. The structural controllability of multi-agent systems is a generalisation of the traditional controllability concept for dynamical systems, and purely based on the communication topologies among agents. The main contributions of this article are graph-theoretic characterisations of the structural controllability for multi-agent systems. It turns out that the multi-agent system with switching topology is structurally controllable if and only if the union graph 𝒢 of the underlying communication topologies is connected (single leader) or leader–follower connected (multi-leader). Finally, this article concludes with several illustrative examples and discussions of the results and future work.     

Distributed robust finite‐time attitude containment control for multiple rigid bodies with uncertainties

This paper investigates the distributed robust finite‐time attitude containment control for multiple rigid bodies with uncertainties including parametric uncertainties, external disturbances, and actuator failures. Two novel types of distributed control laws are designed corresponding to two different cases, respectively, and both of them can drive the orientations of the followers into the convex hull formed by the orientations of leaders in a finite time. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed design. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Observer-based event-triggered containment control of multi-agent systems with time delay

This paper studies the containment control of general linear multi-agent systems with or without time delay. The observer-based event-triggered control schemes will be considered. For the conventional distributed containment control protocol, we will not update the relative state continuously, i.e. the relative state will be updated by some events which happen intermittently. A completely decentralised event trigger will be designed for leader–follower systems. Under the proposed protocol, if we design some appropriate feedback gain matrices, all followers will asymptotically converge to the convex hull spanned by the dynamic leaders. Numerical simulations are also provided and the results show highly consistent with the theoretical results.     

Robust containment control in a leader–follower network of uncertain Euler–Lagrange systems

A distributed controller is developed that yields cooperative containment control of a network of autonomous dynamical systems. The networked agents are modeled with uncertain nonlinear Euler–Lagrange dynamics affected by an unknown time‐varying exogenous disturbance. The developed continuous controller is robust to input disturbances and uncertain dynamics such that asymptotic convergence of the follower agents' states to the dynamic convex hull formed by the leaders' time‐varying states is achieved. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed controller. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Balanced containment control and cooperative timing of a multiagent system over random communication graphs

A multiagent system is considered, which is tasked with the objective of approaching a predetermined target from a desired region to minimize detection and then simultaneously converge at the target. The considered cooperative timing problem consists of 2 stages: navigation and simultaneous arrival. During the navigation stage, the agents are driven from a distant starting point toward the target while restricting their motion within a desired area. Only a few agents (ie, leaders) are equipped with the desired bearing information to the target, whereas the remaining agents (ie, followers) may only have local feedback with neighboring agents to coordinate their headings. No range information to the target and no absolute or other relative position information among agents are available. The arrival stage begins when agents enter a neighborhood of the target (ie, range information becomes available during the arrival stage), and agents coordinate their motion to perform simultaneous arrival. The agents could experience random loss of communication with immediate neighbors, which results in a stochastic communication network. On the basis of the random communication network, balanced containment control is developed, which almost surely restricts the motion of the group within a desired region while equally spacing the agents. An almost sure consensus algorithm is designed for agents to coordinate the simultaneous arrival time by achieving a consensus on informed agents during the arrival stage. Simulation results demonstrate the performance of the developed approach.     

Distributed containment control of multi‐agent systems with general linear dynamics in the presence of multiple leaders

This paper considers the containment control problems for both continuous‐time and discrete‐time multi‐agent systems with general linear dynamics under directed communication topologies. Distributed dynamic containment controllers based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents are constructed for both continuous‐time and discrete‐time cases, under which the states of the followers will asymptotically converge to the convex hull formed by those of the leaders if, for each follower, there exists at least one leader that has a directed path to that follower. Sufficient conditions on the existence of these dynamic controllers are given. Static containment controllers relying on the relative states of neighboring agents are also discussed as special cases. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cooperative containment of discrete‐time linear multi‐agent systems

This paper investigates the cooperative containment control problem for discrete‐time multi‐agent systems with general linear dynamics. Distributed containment control protocols on the basis of state feedback design and output feedback design are proposed. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for both the state feedback and output feedback cases, which are less conservative than those in the literature. These conditions depend on the spectral properties of the topology matrix. Then, effective algorithms are proposed to obtain control gain matrices for both cases based on H _∞ type Riccati design. Simulation examples are provided finally to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design methods. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi-stage dynamic event-triggered containment control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with input-bounded leaders and time-varying delay

This article immerses in the event-triggered containment control problem for a Lipschitz-like nonlinear multi-agent system with multiple active leaders. First, two event-triggered mechanisms with internal dynamic variables are designed in both sensor-observer (S-O) and controller-actuator (C-A) channels to monitor data transmission and reduce communication burden. Second, an observer is constructed with the aid of the output information to estimate the states that cannot be acquired directly. Then, a control protocol considering time-varying communications delays is proposed based on the observer. Third, the boundedness analysis of the containment error system is constructed by Lyapunov stability theory, the sufficient conditions are given in light of strict feasible LMIs. Finally, the validity of the proposed controller is verified by two simulations.     

Dynamic-estimator-based adaptive secure containment control for constrained nonlinear multi-agent systems under denial-of-service attacks

This article concentrates upon the adaptive secure containment control problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems with the output constraint requirements under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. At first, to overcome the difficulty that the tracking performance of the nonlinear multi-agent systems under the DoS attacks is disturbed seriously, a novel adaptive secure containment control approach is presented by applying a DoS attacks detection mechanism and introducing the barrier Lyapunov functions, which enables the system to achieve the security control objective that the output of each agent eventually converges to the convex hull spanned by the dynamic leaders' outputs, while never violating the output constraints. Then, a state estimator is designed, which reconstructs the immeasurable states of the multi-agent systems and approximates the completely unknown nonlinearities arising from the agents. In addition, the dynamic surface control technique is used to solve the “explosion of complexity” problem. It is demonstrated that the proposed anti-attack controller ensures that all the signals of the closed-loop system are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded. Finally, a simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.     

Event-based containment control for multi-agent systems with packet dropouts

This paper is concerned with the event-triggered containment control for stochastic multi-agent systems subject to packet dropouts. The adopted event-triggered protocol is with absolutely triggered conditions catering for the requirement of real-time to an extreme. In light of such a protocol, a novel definition of containment control in mean-square sense, named as χ-containment, is proposed to better describe the tracking dynamics of followers. Based on relative measurement outputs, the purpose of this paper is to design an output-feedback controller such that all followers converge into the convex hull spanned by leaders. First, with the help of the property of the Laplacian matrix, the containment control problem is transformed to an easily setting step by step. Then, sufficient conditions with the form of matrix inequalities are derived to guarantee the desired χ-containment which depends on the initial values and the event-triggered thresholds. By introducing a free matrix combined with an orthogonal basis of the null space of control matrix, the controller gain can be obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the effectiveness of the designed control protocol.     

基于稳态能量平衡的支路平衡控制

为避免加热炉支路温度平衡控制时的动态耦合引起系统波动甚至不稳定,本文提出了一种基于稳态能量平衡的加热炉支路平衡控制方案,并进行了收敛性分析.根据稳态能量平衡计算出各支路需调整的流量,使各支路温度趋向一致.支路平衡控制采用长控制周期的稳态控制和区域控制.分析表明,所提出方案易于稳定,且接近稳态下的理想控制.另外,实现了支路温度均衡下加热炉进料总流量自动提降负荷控制.仿真和现场应用结果表明,控制方案合理,效果良好.     

数据驱动的多智能体网络鲁棒包容控制

针对输入受限的受扰多智能体网络, 提出具有领航层、估计层、控制层和跟随者层的新型鲁棒包容控制方 案. 首先, 设计有限时间估值器获得跟随者的期望状态, 然后基于包容误差引入非均方折扣代价函数, 从而将鲁棒包 容控制问题转换成受限最优控制问题. 并应用Laypunov拓展原理证明得到的最优控制策略使得网络实现一致最终 有界稳定. 在系统动态完全未知的情况下, 采用提出的积分增强学习算法和执行器–评价器结构, 在线得到近似最 优控制策略. 仿真结果验证了理论方案的有效性和可行性.     

Containment control for coupled harmonic oscillators with multiple leaders under directed topology

This paper investigates the problem of containment control for coupled harmonic oscillators with multiple leaders under directed topology. Using tools from matrix, graph and stability theories, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for coupled harmonic oscillators under continuous-time and sampled-data-based protocols, respectively. When the continuous-time protocol is used, it is proved that every follower will ultimately converge to the convex hull spanned by the leaders if and only if there exists at least one leader that has a directed path to that follower at any time. When the sampled-data-based protocol is used, it is shown that the containment can be achieved if and only if: (1) an appropriate sampling period is chosen and (2) for every follower, there exists at least one leader that has a directed path to that follower at any time. And we also give the containment conditions for coupled harmonic oscillators under undirected topology as a special case. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the theoretical findings.     

Adaptive containment control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with non-identical agents

This paper addresses the containment control problem for a group of non-identical agents, where the dynamics of agents are supposed to be nonlinear with unknown parameters and parameterised by some functions. In controller design approach for each follower, adaptive control and Lyapunov theory are utilised as the main control strategies to guarantee the convergence of all non-identical followers to the dynamic convex hull formed by the leaders. The design of distributed adaptive controllers is based on the exchange of neighbourhood errors among the agents. For analysis of containment control problem, a new formulation has been developed using M-matrices. The validity of theoretical results are demonstrated through an example.     

Fixed-time backstepping distributed cooperative control for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles

This paper proposes a fixed-time backstepping distributed cooperative control scheme based on fixed-time extended state observer (FxTESO) for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A fixed-time ESO, which is convergent independently of initial conditions, is designed to estimate and compensate the external disturbances in tracking process. Moreover, to eliminate the “explosion of complexity” in the traditional backstepping architecture, a nonlinear first-order filter is adopted to construct the distributed fixed-time control scheme. Based on the local information of neighboring UAVs, a fixed-time backstepping cooperative controller is designed. The proposed formation algorithm can be shown practicable for the UAV control system by using of Lyapunov stability theory and graph theory. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Event-triggered containment control for multi-agent systems under hybrid cyber attacks

This paper studies event-triggered containment control problem of multi-agent systems (MASs) under deception attacks and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. First, to save limited network resources, an event-triggered mechanism is proposed for MASs under hybrid cyber attacks. Different from the existing event-triggered mechanisms, the negative influences of deception attacks and DoS attacks are considered in the proposed triggering function. The communication frequencies between agents are reduced. Then, based on the proposed event-triggered mechanism, a corresponding control protocol is proposed to ensure that the followers will converge to the convex hull formed by the leaders under deception attacks and DoS attacks. Compared with the previous researches about containment control, in addition to hybrid cyber attacks being considered, the nonlinear functions related to the states of the agents are applied to describe the deception attack signals in the MAS. By orthogonal transformation of deception attack signals, the containment control problem under deception attacks and DoS attacks is reformulated as a stability problem. Then, the sufficient conditions on containment control can be obtained. Finally, a set of simulation example is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Finite-time containment control of perturbed multi-agent systems based on sliding-mode control

Aimed at faster convergence rate, this paper investigates finite-time containment control problem for second-order multi-agent systems with norm-bounded non-linear perturbation. When topology between the followers are strongly connected, the nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode error is defined, corresponding discontinuous control protocol is designed and the appropriate value range of control parameter is obtained by applying finite-time stability analysis, so that the followers converge to and move along the desired trajectories within the convex hull formed by the leaders in finite time. Furthermore, on the basis of the sliding-mode error defined, the corresponding distributed continuous control protocols are investigated with fast exponential reaching law and double exponential reaching law, so as to make the followers move to the small neighbourhoods of their desired locations and keep within the dynamic convex hull formed by the leaders in finite time to achieve practical finite-time containment control. Meanwhile, we develop the faster control scheme according to comparison of the convergence rate of these two different reaching laws. Simulation examples are given to verify the correctness of theoretical results.     

Distributed finite‐time containment control for multiple Euler‐Lagrange systems with communication delays

In this paper, distributed finite‐time containment control for multiple Euler‐Lagrange systems with communication delays and general disturbances is investigated under directed topology by using sliding‐mode control technique. We consider that the information of dynamic leaders can be obtained by only a portion of the followers. Firstly, a nonsingular fast terminal sliding surface is selected to achieve the finite‐time convergence for the error variables. Then, a distributed finite‐time containment control algorithm is proposed where the neural network is utilized to approximate the model uncertainties and external disturbances of the systems. Furthermore, considering that error constraint method can improve the performance of the systems, a distributed finite‐time containment control algorithm is developed by transforming the error variable into another form. It is demonstrated that the containment errors are bounded in finite time by using Lyapunov theory, graph theory, and finite‐time stability theory. Numerical simulations are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Distributed containment control for nonlinear multiagent systems in pure‐feedback form

In this paper, the problem of distributed containment control for pure‐feedback nonlinear multiagent systems under a directed graph topology is investigated. The dynamics of each agent are molded by high‐order nonaffine pure‐feedback form. Neural networks are employed to identify unknown nonlinear functions, and dynamic surface control technique is used to avoid the problem of explosion of complexity inherent in backstepping design procedure. The Frobenius norm of the ideal neural network weighting matrices is estimated, which is helpful to reduce the number of the adaptive tuning law and alleviate the networked communication burden. The proposed distributed containment controllers guarantee that all signals in the closed‐loop systems are cooperatively semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded, and the outputs of followers are driven into a convex hull spanned by the multiple dynamic leaders. Finally, the effectiveness of the developed method is demonstrated by simulation examples.