Consensus Tracking Algorithm Via Observer-Based Distributed Output Feedback for Multi-Agent Systems Under Switching Topology

Second-Order Consensus of Multi-agent Systems via Periodically Intermittent Pinning Control

“…The coordinated control of multi-agent systems, including synchronization [6,11,22,25], flocking [15,22], consensus [7,10,12,14,[20][21][22][23]31] and containment [17][18][19], has become an active research field in recent decades. As claimed and demonstrated in [1][2][3][4][5]8,9,13,18,26,29,30], consensus aimed at guiding the states of all agents to achieve a common value is one of the fundamental problems in the coordinated control of multi-agent systems and has attracted considerable attention, ranging from first-order systems [7,23] to second-order systems [10,12,14,20,31] and even high-order ones [21].…”

“…As claimed and demonstrated in [1][2][3][4][5]8,9,13,18,26,29,30], consensus aimed at guiding the states of all agents to achieve a common value is one of the fundamental problems in the coordinated control of multi-agent systems and has attracted considerable attention, ranging from first-order systems [7,23] to second-order systems [10,12,14,20,31] and even high-order ones [21]. For example, the authors in [23] investigated the consensus of first-order multiagent systems subject to input saturation, whereas references [12,20,31] focused on the consensus of second-order multi-agent systems with nonlinear intrinsic dynamics.…”

“…With the aid of pinning control, Su et al provided careful analysis on the flocking of multi-agent systems with a virtual leader in [15,22]. Additionally, the consensus tracking of multi-agent systems with first-and second-order dynamics was addressed in [7,23] and [12,20,31], respectively. In 2010, Yu et al studied the second-order consensus with nonlinear dynamics by defining the generalized algebraic connectivity in [31].…”

“…To date, several efforts have been devoted to the consensus of multi-agent systems by presupposing that communication is continuous, such as references [7,12,14,17,25]. Therein, the controllers kept working continuously, regardless of whether the topology was fixed [12,14] or switching [7,17,25].…”

“…Therein, the controllers kept working continuously, regardless of whether the topology was fixed [12,14] or switching [7,17,25]. Aside from continuous communication, intermittent control, which possesses stronger robustness and better energy savings, has also been introduced.…”