Distributed fault-tolerant pinning control for cluster synchronization of multiple unmanned surface vehicles

Clustering Component Synchronization of Nonlinearly Coupled Complex Networks via Pinning Control

“…The pinning control strategy, which drives a complex network to the selected synchronization state only by controlling a small portion of the nodes in the network, has been widely adopted to synchronize the network since it was first introduced by Wang and Chen [23] in 2002. Much work has been dedicated to the investigation of the synchronization of complex networks via pinning control [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. For instance, in [24], by adding linear negative feedback controllers to the last node of each cluster, Wu et al, successfully drove a general linearly coupled network to a specified cluster synchronization pattern for any initial value and delivered the pinning cluster synchronization criteria.…”