Distributed output regulation of leader–follower multi‐agent systems |
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Authors: | Yiguang Hong Xiaoli Wang Zhong‐Ping Jiang |
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Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Systems and Control, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, , Beijing, 100190 China;2. School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, , Weihai, Shandong, 264209 China;3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Six Metrotech Center, , Brooklyn, NY, 11201 USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, distributed leader–follower control algorithms are presented for linear multi‐agent systems based on output regulation theory and internal model principle. By treating a leader to be followed as an exosystem, the proposed framework can be used to generalize existing multi‐agent coordination solutions to allow the identical agents to track an active leader with different dynamics and unmeasurable variables. Moreover, the obtained results for multi‐agent coordination control are an extension of previous work on centralized and decentralized output regulation to a distributed control context. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the distributed output regulation problem are given. Finally, distributed output regulation of some classes of multi‐agent systems with switching interconnection topologies are discussed via both static and dynamic feedback. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | output regulation distributed control multi‐agent systems internal model |
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