“…As an alternative, in recent years, observer-based distributed control approaches have been developed to address linear or nonlinear multi-agent systems with immeasurable states (Chen, Ren, & Du, 2015b;Chen, Wen, Liu, & Liu, 2015a;Peng, Wang, Zhang, & Sun, 2014;Peng, Wang, Zhang, & Lin, 2015;Sun & Geng, 2015;Zhang, Lewis, & Das, 2011;Zou & Kumar, 2012 ). For a class of identical general linear systems, Zhang et al (2011) presented a framework for cooperative tracking control, including full-state feedback control, observer design and dynamic output feedback control by assuming the leader's control input to be zero, while Sun and Geng (2015) addressed the consensus tracking problem with unknown dynamics in the leader.…”