Distributed adaptive switching consensus control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with switched leader dynamics. (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yuan, Chengzhi
• Is Part Of: Nonlinear analysis. Volume 26(2017)
• Page Start: 274
• Page End: 283
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: Multi-agent systems -- Model reference adaptive control -- Switched systems; Nonlinear functional analysis -- Periodicals; Analyse fonctionnelle non linéaire -- Périodiques; Nonlinear functional analysis; Periodicals; 515.7248
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nahs.2017.06.003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-570X

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, the leader-following distributed consensus control problem is addressed for general linear multi-agent systems with heterogeneous uncertain agent dynamics and switched leader dynamics. Different from most existing results with a single linear time-invariant (LTI) leader dynamics, the leader dynamics under consideration is composed by a family of LTI models and a switching logic governing the switches among them, which is capable of generating more diverse and sophisticated reference signals to accommodate more complicated consensus control design tasks. A novel distributed adaptive switching consensus protocol is developed by incorporating the model reference adaptive control mechanism and arbitrary switching control technique, which can be synthesized by following a two-layer hierarchical design scheme. A numerical example has been used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.