Coordination of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with prescribed behaviours. Issue 10 (3rd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tang, Yutao
• Is Part Of: International journal of control. Volume 90:Issue 10(2017)
• Page Start: 2197
• Page End: 2205
• Publication Date: 2017-10-03
• Subjects: Heterogeneous multi-agent system -- nonlinear dynamics -- adaptive control -- input–output behaviour; Automatic control -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 629.8
• DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2016.1239839
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-7179

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we consider a coordination problem for a class of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with a prescribed input–output behaviour which was represented by another input-driven system. In contrast to most existing multi-agent coordination results with an autonomous (virtual) leader, this formulation takes possible control inputs of the leader into consideration. First, the coordination was achieved by utilising a group of distributed observers based on conventional assumptions of model matching problem. Then, a fully distributed adaptive extension was proposed without using the input of this input–output behaviour. An example was given to verify their effectiveness.