Tracking of a third-order maneuvering target under an arbitrary topology

Abstract

We explore the tracking problem of a maneuvering target. Tracking agents with third-order kinematics can communicate with each other via wireless network. The communication network topology is arbitrary rather than switches among several fixed topologies. The information sharing and interaction among agents are position, velocity, and acceleration. Some sufficient conditions of tracking strategy have been proposed. Finally, a numerical example is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed tracking strategy.

Surrounding Problem of Multi‐agent Systems Under Arbitrary Topology

“…The Ref. [23] gave a sufficient and necessary condition for the consensus of time-varying complex dynamic network system. Based on this literature, this paper studies the second-order integrator/nonlinear multi-agent surrounding multi-agents with continuous time-varying topology.…”

Stability of a Class of Multiagent Tracking Systems With Unstable Subsystems

“…Multi-agent systems [3][4][5] are then developed and have been widely used in the applications of mobile robots [6] and unmanned vehicles [7,8]. Tracking problem of a target is a typical issue of multi-agent systems and has drawn L. Dong much attention of researchers [9][10][11][12][13][14]. In most of the existing literatures, the topologies of multi-agent systems are supposed to be fixed topologies or switching topologies.…”

“…[10] study tracking problems for multi-agent systems under switching topologies, which are modelled by switching between several fixed topologies. In our previous works [11][12][13][14], we have studied the tracking problem for one target under a timevarying topology and in [14], the communication delay is also considered.…”

Finite interval tracking algorithm for nonlinear multi-agent systems with communication delays

“…The objective of tracking is to design distributed control laws to drive the group of agents to reach the desired trajectory of a target agent. So far, most existing studies on the tracking problem focus on the case where agents asymptotically achieve agreement (Chen & Li, 2014;Dong, Chai, & Zhang, 2014;Dong, Chai, Zhang, & Nguang, 2014a, 2014bDong, Chai, Zhang, Nguang, & Wen, 2015;Hong et al, 2006;Wen, Duan, Chen, & Yu, 2014;Yan et al, 2010).…”

“…By combining the effective ILC approaches, two classes of distributed protocols are constructed from the two-dimensional system point of view based on input-output dynamics in . In practice, since almost all the physical plants contain nonlinearity (Chae & Nguang, 2014;Saat & Nguang, 2015;Zhang, Shi, Qiu, & Nguang, 2015), there are several publications in the literature that investigate the asymptotically tracking algorithms for nonlinear multi-agent systems (Cheng, Hou, Tan, Lin, & Zhang, 2010;Dong, Chai, & Zhang, 2014;Dong et al, Figure . A communication network of agents in which agent i is able to communicate with its neighbour, agent j, if there is a link (i, j) connecting the two nodes.…”