Flocking of multi‐agent dynamical systems with intermittent nonlinear velocity measurements |
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Authors: | Guanghui Wen Zhisheng Duan Zhongkui Li Guanrong Chen |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Lab for Turbulence and Complex Systems and the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, , Beijing 100871, China;2. School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, , Beijing 100081, China;3. Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, , Hong Kong SAR, China |
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Abstract: | In this paper, the problem of flocking control in networks of multiple dynamical agents with intermittent nonlinear velocity measurements is studied. A new flocking algorithm is proposed to guarantee the states of the velocity variables of all the dynamical agents to converge to consensus while ensuring collision avoidance of the whole group, where each agent is assumed to obtain some nonlinear measurements of the relative velocity between itself and its neighbors only on a sequence of non‐overlapping time intervals. The results are then extended to the scenario of flocking with a nonlinearly dynamical virtual leader, where only a small fraction of agents are informed and each informed agent can obtain intermittent nonlinear measurements of the relative velocity between itself and the virtual leader. Theoretical analysis shows that the achieved flocking in systems with or without a virtual leader is robust against the time spans of the agent speed‐sensors. Finally, some numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the new design. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | flocking multi‐agent system intermittent velocity measurement speed sensor failure virtual leader |
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