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This paper considers the distributed robust control problems of uncertain linear multi-agent systems with undirected communication topologies. It is assumed that the agents have identical nominal dynamics while subject to different…

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In this paper, we address the problem of prescribed-time leader-following consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of unknown sensor sensitivity. Under a connected undirected topology, we propose a time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Hefu Ye , Changyun Wen , Yongduan Song

This published paper investigates the distributed tracking control problem for a class of Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems when the agents can only measure the positions. In this case, the lack of the separation principle and the strong…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Qingkai Yang , Hao Fang , Jie Chen , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Ming Cao

This paper investigates the distributed event-triggered control problem for a class of uncertain pure-feedback nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with polluted feedback. Under the setting of event-triggered control, substantial challenges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Libei Sun , Zhirong Zhang , Xinjian Huang , Xiucai Huang

Time-varying coverage control addresses the challenge of coordinating multiple agents covering an environment where regions of interest change over time. This problem has broad applications, including the deployment of autonomous taxis and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Patrick Benito Eberhard , Johannes Köhler , Oliver Hüsser , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

This paper presents a novel adaptive control methodology for uncertain systems with time-varying unknown parameters and time-varying bounded disturbance. The adaptive controller ensures uniformly bounded transient and asymptotic tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chengyu Cao , Naira Hovakimyan

In this paper, a distributed learning leader-follower consensus protocol based on Gaussian process regression for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics is designed. We propose a distributed learning approach to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Zewen Yang , Stefan Sosnowski , Qingchen Liu , Junjie Jiao , Armin Lederer , Sandra Hirche

We develop an optimization-based framework for joint real-time trajectory planning and feedback control of feedback-linearizable systems. To achieve this goal, we define a target trajectory as the optimal solution of a time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Tianqi Zheng , John Simpson-Porco , Enrique Mallada

This paper deals with the tracking control problem for a class of unknown pure feedback system with pure state constraints on the state variables and unknown time-varying bounded disturbances. An adaptive controller is presented for such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Pankaj Kumar Mishra , Nishchal K Verma

This paper presents a distributed continuous-time optimization framework aimed at overcoming the challenges posed by time-varying cost functions and constraints in multi-agent systems, particularly those subject to disturbances. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Mohammad Deghat

This paper studies the consensus control problem faced with three essential demands, namely, discrete control updating for each agent, discrete-time communications among neighboring agents, and the fully distributed fashion of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Bin Cheng , Yuezu Lv , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan

It is nontrivial to achieve exponential stability even for time-invariant nonlinear systems with matched uncertainties and persistent excitation (PE) condition. In this paper, without the need for PE condition, we address the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Hefu Ye , Haijia Wu , Kai Zhao , Yongduan Song

This paper considers the leader-follower control problem for a linear multi-agent system with directed communication topology and linear nonidentical uncertain coupling subject to integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). A consensus-type…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii , Guanghui Wen

This paper addresses the problem of distributed control for leader-follower multi-agent systems under prescribed performance guarantees. Leader-follower is meant in the sense that a group of agents with external inputs are selected as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Distributed aggregative optimization is a recently emerged framework in which the agents of a network want to minimize the sum of local objective functions, each one depending on the agent decision variable (e.g., the local position of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Mimmo , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this paper, a fixed-time safe control problem is investigated for an uncertain high-order nonlinear pure-feedback system with state constraints. A new nonlinear transformation function is firstly proposed to handle both the constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Chaoqun Guo , Jiangping Hu , Jiasheng Hao , Sergej Celikovsky , Xiaoming Hu

This paper focuses on the problem of distributed consensus control of multi-agent systems while considering two main practical concerns (i) stochastic noise in the agent dynamics and (ii) predefined performance constraints over evolutions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Pushpak Jagtap , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper considers an internal model based distributed control approach to the cooperative output regulation problem of heterogeneous linear time-invariant multiagent systems over fixed directed communication graph topologies. First, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Selahattin Burak Sarsilmaz , Tansel Yucelen

This paper investigates event-triggered consensus tracking in nonlinear semi-strict-feedback multi-agent systems involving one leader and multiple followers. We first employ radial basis function neural networks and backstepping techniques…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Ziming Wang , Yun Gao , Apostolos I. Rikos , Ning Pang , Yiding Ji

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse