Distributed consensus control of nonlinear multi-agent systems with sensor uncertainty |
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Authors: | Hanfeng Li Lihua Xie Xianfu Zhang Weihao Pan |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China;2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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Abstract: | This article focuses on the distributed consensus control problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to sensor uncertainty. To be specific, we study nonlinear multi-agent systems of lower or upper triangular structure with unknown growth rate and sensor uncertainty. A new time-varying gain approach is proposed to construct observers as well as distributed output-feedback controllers. By selecting suitable design parameters, the leader-follower consensus of nonlinear multi-agent systems is achieved. Different from the existing results, a time-varying function in a logarithmic form is introduced to deal with unknown growth rate. Moreover, a monotonically increasing time-varying function is constructed to cope with uncertain sensor sensitivity. Two simulation examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed distributed consensus control algorithms. |
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Keywords: | consensus control nonlinear multi-agent systems output feedback sensor uncertainty |
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