基于事件触发的二阶多智能体领导跟随一致性

研究二阶多智能体系统在固定有向拓扑下的领导跟随一致性问题.为了节省网络和计算资源,给出一种基于事件触发控制的一致性算法.针对每个跟随者智能体,设计基于状态误差形式的触发函数,只有当状态误差满足一定条件,即触发函数取值为零时智能体才触发事件,同时更新并传递自身的采样信息,在两个相邻事件触发时刻之间,控制输入只受领导者控制信号的影响.利用模型变换、矩阵理论和Lyapunov稳定性理论给出多智能体系统达到领导跟随一致性的充分条件.仿真结果验证了理论方案的可行性和有效性.     

分布式事件触发多自主体领导跟随一致性研究

为了提高系统的通信效率和能源利用率,减少多自主体系统硬件资源的浪费,提出了只需要自主体自身及其最近邻居节点信息的分布式事件触发控制算法。研究了带有动态领导者的二阶多自主体系统领导跟随一致性问题。应用矩阵论和现代控制理论研究了在分布式事件触发机制下的二阶系统,得到了基于事件触发机制的多自主体系统协同运动的收敛条件。通过理论分析与计算表明,在此控制协议下不会存在芝诺行为,并且多自主体系统可以实现领导跟随一致性。最后,应用计算机仿真验证了本文所提控制协议的可靠性。     

Leader-following consensus of fractional-order multi-agent systems via adaptive pinning control

In this paper, the leader-following consensus problem of fractional-order multi-agent systems is considered via adaptive pinning control. The dynamics of leader and all followers with linear and nonlinear functions are investigated, respectively. We assume that the node should be pinned if its in-degree is less than its out-degree in the paper. Under this assumption and based on the stability theory of fractional-order differential systems, some leader-following consensus criteria are derived, which are easily obtained by matrix inequalities. The control of each agent using local information is designed and detailed analysis of the leader-following consensus is presented. The design technique is based on algebraic graph theory and the Riccati inequality. Several simulation examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Saturated observer-based adaptive neural network leader-following control of N tractors with n-trailers with a guaranteed performance

This article addresses the leader-following neural network adaptive observer-based control of N tractors connected to n trailers with the prescribed performance specifications. To propose the controller, a change of coordinates and a nonlinear error transformation are used to transform the constrained error dynamics to a new second-order Euler-Lagrange unconstrained error dynamics which inherits all structural properties of ith vehicle dynamic model. By combining a projection-type neural network and an adaptive robust technique, a novel leader-following saturated output-feedback controller is proposed to force that ith vehicle tracks a virtual leader trajectory with the prescribed transient and steady-state characteristics while reducing the actuator saturation risk and compensating all unknown dynamic model parameters, external disturbances, unmolded dynamics, and NN approximation errors. A saturated velocity observer is heuristically proposed to obviate the requirement for the velocity measurements of ith vehicle without any unwanted peaking. A Lyapunov-based stability analysis is utilized to prove that all the tracking and state observation errors are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) and they converge to small bounds including the origin with a prescribed performance. At the end, computer simulations will be shown to validate the efficacy of the proposed controller in practice.     

Mean square leader-following consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with Markovian switching topologies and communication delays

This article considers the mean square leader-following output consensus problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems under randomly switching topologies and time-varying communication delays. By modeling the switching topologies as a time-homogeneous Markov process and taking the communication delays into consideration, a distributed observer is proposed to estimate the state of the leader. A novel distributed output feedback controller is then designed. By constructing a novel switching Lyapunov functional, an easily-verifiable sufficient condition to achieve the mean square leader-following output consensus is given. Finally, two simulation examples are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Leader-following consensus for single-integrator multi-agent systems with multiplicative noises in directed topologies

This paper proposes a leader-following consensus control for continuous-time single-integrator multi-agent systems with multiplicative measurement noises under directed fixed and switching topologies. The consensus controller is developed by combining the graph theory and stochastic tools. The control input for each agent relies on its own state and its neighbours’ states corrupted by noises, the noises are considered proportional to the relative distance between agents, both of the noisy case and the noise-free case are studied, and conditions to achieve mean square convergence under noisy measurement and asymptotic convergence in absence of noises are derived. Finally, in order to prove the validity of the consensus control, some simulations were carried out.     

Leader-following fixed-time output feedback consensus for second-order multi-agent systems with input saturation

This paper investigates the leader-following fixed-time output feedback consensus problem for second-order multi-agent systems with input saturation. By combing fixed-time control technique and bi-limit homogeneous systems theory, a class of bounded fixed-time consensus protocols are developed for leader-following multi-agent systems. The protocol design is divided into two parts. First, when all the state information of the followers are measurable, a state feedback consensus protocol is designed to achieve fixed-time consensus. Then, when the velocity information is unmeasurable, an observer-based fixed-time consensus protocol is proposed. With the help of Lyapunov stability theorem and the property of a homogeneous function, it is theoretically shown that the states of all followers can track that of the leader in fixed-time in the presence of input saturation. Finally, numerical simulation is carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of theoretical results.     

Observer-based leader-following tracking control under both fixed and switching topologies

This paper studies the tracking problem for a class of leader-follower multi-agent systems moving on the plane using observerbased cooperative control strategies. In our set-up, only a subset of the followers can obtain some relative information on the leader. We assume that the control input of the leader is not known to any of the followers while the system matrix is broadcast to all the followers. To track such a leader, an observer-based decentralized feedback controller is designed for each follower and detailed analysis for the convergence is presented for both fixed and switching interaction topologies between agents with the method of common Lyapunov function. We can also generalize the result to the higher dimension case for fixed topology and some special system matrices of the leader for switching topology.     

耦合调和振子网络系统的联合连通同步

论文分析了耦合调和振子网络系统在联合连通网络拓扑结构下的引导-跟随同步问题.假定每个网络拓扑结构图不连通,但它们在有限时间内能够联合连通,利用代数图论,李雅普诺夫稳定性理论和La Salle不变原理,证明了该系统的同步稳定性.最后,数值模拟进一步验证了所得理论结果的正确性和有效性.